DREYFUS AS HE IS NOW.
UNPOPULAR AM) DISLIKED I.V SPITE OF IXXOCEXCK. ft is safe to say that the <fiili.il iigure of the Dreyfus affair, Drcyfm himself--is it because he is the most unlucky ur the least, magnetic of men, or both?—has fewer friends and admirers in his t.iumph than he had in his distress. He has failed to win over his antagonists (the unbridled antiSemitic and Royalist organs continue with impunity to refer to him as "Le ! Traitre"), and he has contrived to gel j himself disliked by nearly all his former champions, who cynically allirni that "his innocence is hTs principal virtue." For tully two years after bis pardon Dreyfus was in a highly nervous state, woke often in the night under the impression lie was still on the "lie du Diable," am! to rid himself of the hideous nightmare was wont to get up and pace the floor. He passed the winter and spring of 11)00 witli his elder sister at Villemarie, close to Carpentras, iu the South of France, and finished his cure in Switzerland, near Geneva. Justly dissatisfied with the law of reparation of 1006, which accorded him less than he would have obtained in the natural course of events, and which rendered it impossible for him ever to attain the highest grades in the army, he demanded his superannuation at the end of a year. He is now living with his family'in the Pare Monceau quarter of Paris, in a corner apartment house oi the Boulevard Malesherbes, whi."h differs in no essential respect from a hundred other apartment houses ill the I same district.
Never having recognised that his cause was a political one, he refuses persistently to' "jilay_ politics.'' lift is neither' an anti-militarist nor a rabid anti-clerical. Iu short, Drovnis i» the least "Drcyfusard of the Ureyfiisards.' - a fact, which the majority of his e\ehampions can neither understand n"r forgive. He limits liis social relations mainly to his kindred and intimate friends. He appears rarely in public, but makes it a point of honor lo attend the ceremonies which commemorate the important incidents of his affair. Fired al. on the occasion of his last public appearance (tile "Pautheonisatiun" of Zrlai. by the aged ilitarist Oregon. the wound he received was so slight thai div a so if, of paradoxical piece of illluck i ii did Mol even serve to rend"r him infcresting, as a really serious injury would have done. The very bullet luv-lerioiwly di-ajipeared, "refusing." lo eite one of his enemies, "to remain in | his ann,"' I
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 23, 20 February 1909, Page 4
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426DREYFUS AS HE IS NOW. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 23, 20 February 1909, Page 4
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