At Émile Zola's 1908 reburial at the Paris Panthéon, a journalist named Louis Grégori pushed through the crowd and fired two pistol shots at one of the attendees. Who was the target?
Dreyfus was wounded in the arm. Grégori was a 65-year-old anti-Dreyfusard journalist who had written for the right-wing press during the affair. A Parisian jury acquitted him of attempted murder in three hours of deliberation; he paid only a 100-franc fine for the firearm offence. The acquittal was substantial demonstration that anti-Dreyfusard politics remained viable in the Third Republic even two years after Dreyfus's official rehabilitation. Dreyfus served through WWI and died of natural causes in 1935.
Read the full story →When Émile Zola's remains were transferred to the Panthéon on 4 June 1908, the journalist Louis Grégori shot Alfred Dreyfus twice in the arm at point-blank range. Both bullets struck. Dreyfus survived. Grégori was acquitted by a Parisian jury three months later.
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