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syllabus
units conclusions image banks --l'assiette au beurre --Les Quatre Saisons de la Kultur |
The transfer of Zola's ashes to the temple of "Les Grands hommes de
la patrie” occasioned this special issue of L'Assiette au beurre
(No. 374, 30 mai, 1908) with illustrations by d'Ostoya. "Zola au Panthéon”
is a virulent denunciation of official hypocrisy. A long, snaking
line of dignitaries (depicted with great kinetic energy by d'Ostoya) on
each page wait to make a public show of their "respect." The captions,
however, show that members of the government, the army and the clergy
think quite differently of the author of J'accuse than their presence on
line might lead one to believe. In the lllustration shown on the
top of page 4, graduates of the religious and military schools recall how
they were sent out weekly during the Dreyfus Affair to shout out "A bas
Zola!" While, at the bottom of page 4, standing outside the
line, but feeling he has a place in it, "because I gave a hundred francs
for his monument," we see the instantly recognizable silhouette of
Alfred Dreyfus himself. Of special note is the cover illustration (page
1) where d'Ostoya seems to have applied Zola's own naturalistic conventions
(and perhaps an allusion to the nascent cinema as well?) in his long-shot
take of the procession wending its way to the Pantheon.
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