Le Petit Journal was a daily Paris newspaper/magazine founded by Moïse Polydore Millaud, and published from 1863 – 1944. The Dreyfus Collection includes thirteen original copies of the weekly illustrated supplement of Le Petit Journal depicting events related to the Dreyfus Affair during the period 1897 - 1899. Editorially, Le Petit Journal tended to be conservative in nature, its covers often depicting images that promoted the military or otherwise evoked French patriotism.
On August 3, 1898, Emile Zola won a libel lawsuit filed against Le Petit Journal and its anti-Dreyfusard editor, Ernest Judet. The suit arose from an article alleging that Zola’s father had embezzled funds from the Commissaire Department of the Foreign Legion in 1832 when he was connected to the Legion.
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