Open letter
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An open letter is a letter that is intended to be read by a wide audience, or a letter intended for an individual, but that is nonetheless widely distributed intentionally.
J'Accuse…! is an influential open letter written by Émile Zola in 1898 over the Dreyfus Affair.
Bill Gates's Open Letter to Hobbyists from the Homebrew Computer Club Newsletter, January 1976
Dreyfus affair
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The Dreyfus affair was a political scandal that divided the Third French Republic from 1894 until its resolution in 1906. The scandal began in December 1894 when Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a 35-year-old
Open letter
…Richard Oastler in 1830, about exploitative child labor practices in English textile mills J'accuse...! by journalist Émile Zola in 1898, about the Dreyfus affair in France "Letter from Birmingham Jail" by civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. in 1963, about racism and civil rights…
Dreyfus in 1894, the year he was prosecuted
General Raoul Le Mouton de Boisdeffre, architect of the military alliance with Russia
No. 35 Amnistie populaire of the Musée des Horreurs depicts the hanged corpse of an antisemitic caricature of Alfred Dreyfus.
Photograph of the bordereau dated 13 October 1894. The original disappeared in 1940.