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Book/Printed Material At the Foot of Mount Sinai. Au Pied du Sinaï

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Title

  • At the Foot of Mount Sinai.

Other Title

  • Au Pied du Sinaï

Summary

  • On January 13, 1898, Georges Clemenceau, politician, journalist, and cofounder and owner of the newspaper L'Aurore (The dawn), published in his newspaper the famous manifesto J'accuse (I accuse) by Émile Zola, defending Captain Alfred Dreyfus against charges of treason and espionage motivated by anti-Semitism. Only three months later, Clemenceau published Au Pied du Sinaï (At the foot of Mount Sinai). The work includes a collection of portraits of Jewish people from Galicia that might easily be characterized as anti-Semitic. Clemenceau was, however, a staunch defender of Dreyfus and, the illustrations notwithstanding, the text mostly expresses his admiration for the energy of the Jewish people, who were able to overcome hatred and persecution, thanks to their "most precious gift of turning an idea into action." Very fond of the artistic movements of his time, Clemenceau had publicly praised the crayon mordant (biting pen) of Henri de Toulouse Lautrec in 1894, which is why he asked him to illustrate Au Pied du Sinaï. The illustrations consist of ten lithographs, a cover, and a cul-de-lampe (typographical ornament). The edition presented here was limited to 380 copies and printed on special paper.

Names

  • Clémenceau, Georges, 1841-1929 Author.
  • Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de, 1864-1901 Illustrator.

Created / Published

  • Paris : H. Floury, 1898.

Headings

  • -  France
  • -  Israel
  • -  1898
  • -  French literature
  • -  Jews

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  Original resource extent: 107 pages.
  • -  Original resource at: National Library of France.
  • -  Content in French.
  • -  Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.

Medium

  • 1 online resource.

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021666981

Online Format

  • compressed data
  • pdf
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Clémenceau, Georges, Author, and Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec. At the Foot of Mount Sinai. Paris: H. Floury, 1898. Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021666981/.

APA citation style:

Clémenceau, G. & Toulouse-Lautrec, H. D. (1898) At the Foot of Mount Sinai. Paris: H. Floury. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021666981/.

MLA citation style:

Clémenceau, Georges, Author, and Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec. At the Foot of Mount Sinai. Paris: H. Floury, 1898. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021666981/>.