19th century
Anti-Jewish riots in metropolitan France during the Dreyfus affair
1898·Nantes, Bordeaux, Marseille, Rennes
The toll is reproduced exactly as the source states it — never rounded, never added to another. Tolls overlap from one event to the next.
Jewish shops ransacked and demonstrations in about sixty cities
In metropolitan France, the Dreyfus Affair provokes demonstrations and the ransacking of Jewish shops in some sixty towns, including Nantes, Bordeaux, Marseille, and Rennes.
Rennes would take on particular significance the following year, when the second trial was held there. The violence in metropolitan France remains incomparable to that in Algeria — it claimed no lives — but it reveals the breadth of the movement and contradicts the notion of a France where the affair had remained confined to newsrooms and courtrooms.
- Period :
- 19th century
- Type :
- Pogrom
- Region :
- Western Europe
- Country :
- France
Presse française ; rapports préfectoraux.