Some stories, capable of synthesizing the social, political and cultural dynamics of each moment, allow the world to be explained cyclically. The Dreyfus case, judgment, condemnation and rehabilitation of a Jewish military unjustly accused of high treason, returns to the French public scene, divided since then between the Dreyfusians and their adversaries. More than 125 years after the beginning of that infamy, guided by a thrilling exhibition that recalls his figure in the Museum of Art and History of Judaism of Paris, France intends to close the wound raising the general range of Dreyfus and burying his remains in the pantheon, where the heroes of the nation rest. The current world, however, will continue to be explained through the elements that caused the painful fracture.
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