Sir, Would you allow me, grateful as I am for the kind reception you once extended to me, to show my concern about maintaining your well-deserved prestige and to point out that your star which, until now, has shone so brightly, risks being dimmed by the most shameful and indelible of stains?

Dreyfus is innocent. I swear it! I stake my life on it -- my honor! At this solemn moment, in the presence of this tribunal which is the representative of huma…

A court martial, under orders, has just dared to acquit a certain Esterhazy, a supreme insult to all truth and justice. And now the image of France is sullied …

Everything is only a dream.