Five years after a conviction which divided France into two camps: the anti-Dreyfus and Dreyfus. The President Emile Loubet pardoned Dreyfus (French Jewish officer) who was wrongly accused of passing military information to the German army during the war of 1870. Zola will support publishing "J'accuse ...! ".
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