Dress Rehearsal for Dreyfus: the Duchesse de Berry, Simon Deutz, and Modern France’s First Antisemitic Affair
Program in European Cultural Studies and Eberhard L. Faber 1915 Memorial Fund in the Humanities Council Maurice Samuels
March 26, 2018 · 4:30 pm—6:00 pm · 106 McCormick
In 1832, the Duchesse de Berry launched a civil war to recapture the French throne for her 11-year-old son. She was turned into the government by her trusted confidant, a convert from Judaism named Simon Deutz. This talk argues that the “affair” that resulted from the arrest of the duchess set the tone for a century of French antisemitism that followed.
