Bernard Lazare

Bernard Lazare was a French journalist and writer, born in 1865, who became a key figure in the Dreyfus Affair, advocating for the exoneration of Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish army officer wrongfully convicted of treason. His passionate defense of Dreyfus highlighted the rampant anti-Semitism in French society at the time and ignited a public outcry for justice, marking him as a prominent voice for civil rights and human dignity.