[AFFAIRE DREYFUS] Testament officiel d'Emile Zola

First edition of this anti-Dreyfusard tract, published after “J'accuse”. This virulent pamphlet takes the macabre form of a death notice, with a black border as was usual at the time, calling on its readers to “come to the procession, service, and funeral of this pornographer and defender of the traitor Dreyfus”.
Nicknamed the “king of the street pedlars”, the publisher Léon Hayard specialized in political pamphlets and more specifically satirical obituaries and wills.
Two copies in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, one in the Musée Carnavalet and one in the British Library as well as one in the collections of the Mémorial de la Shoah.
Very well conserved given the fragility of the paper of this ephemeral document that is witness to the violent anti-Semitism exacerbated by the Dreyfus affair.