Joseph Reinach

Joseph Reinach , born with Paris the September 30th 1856 and died in Paris the April 18th 1921, is a journalist and French politician engaged in the Affaire Dreyfus.

Biography

Wire of a banker of German origin, older brother of the archeologist Solomon Reinach and the historian Theodore Reinach, it makes studies of right and becomes lawyer.

Near to Gambetta, he collaborates in the newspaper the French Republic , of which he will take the direction later, and becomes his principal private secretary between 1881 and 1882. He engages on the side of the Républicains and conducts a campaign impassioned against the Général Baker, which will be worth to him to be caused in duel by Paul Déroulède. In 1889, he is elected appointed the Low-Alps, where he will be re-elected in 1893.

As of 1894, it takes the defense of Dreyfus, soliciting the president of the Republic Casimir Périer so that the judgment does not proceed behind closed doors and denouncing in the newspaper the Century the false additions with the file by the colonel Henry, which will be worth to him to be continued for slandering by the widow of this last in 1898. In 1897, it joins Auguste Scheurer-Kestner to obtain the revision of the lawsuit. Its standpoint contributes to the rallying of personalities like Anatole Leroy-Beaulieu and Gabriel Monod. But, attacked by the Nationalist press , it loses its seat of deputy in May 1898.

It takes part then in the creation of the Ligue of the human rights and the citizen of which the first general meeting takes place itself a few days later. It also starts to write its monumental Histoire of the business Dreyfus , which appears in of 1901 and which will count seven volumes after the rehabilitation of Dreyfus ten years later.

In 1906, it finds its seat of deputy whom it preserved until in 1914. His/her Adolphe son, who had started a brilliant career of Archéologue like his uncles, will be killed with the face during the Great War.

In addition to its reference book on the Business Dreyfus, Reinach leaves a quantity of documents on Gambetta, of which the speech in which it took part, and on the Great War during which it published leading articles under the pseudonym of “Polibe”.

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