Mob violence silenced press and judges backing a Dreyfus retrial.

Evidence

The faculty rooms of Rennes University were wrecKed after five professors had declared themselves in favor of a retrial. After the appearance of Zola’s first article Royalist students demonstrated outside the offices of Figaro, after which tne paper desisted from further articles of the same type. The publisher of the pro-Dreyfus la Bataille was beaten up on the street. The judges of the Court of Cassation, which finally set aside the verdict of 1894, reported unanimously that they had been threatened with “unlawful assault.” Examples could be multiplied. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2159