EDOUARD DRUMONT

'Édouard Adolphe Drumont' (3 May 1844 – 5 February 1917) was a French journalist and writer, founder in 1889 of the Antisemitic League of France. He was born at Paris.[1]
He was at first in the government service, but later became a contributor to the press and was the author of a number of miscellaneous works, of which ''Mon vieux Paris'' (1879) was crowned by the Academy. [2]]
Drumont's 1886 book ''La France Juive'' (''Jewish France'') attacked the role of Jews in France and argued for their exclusion from society. In 1892 Drumont founded the newspaper the ''La Libre Parole'' which became a platform for virulent antisemitism. This newspaper also came out against 'Diana Vaughan', an invention of Léo Taxil, before Taxil admitted that his anti-Masonic protégée did not exist in 1897. ''La Libre Parole'' preferred the 'seeress' Henriette Couedon.
From 1898 to 1902 he represented Algiers in the Chamber of Deputies. [3] Édouard Drumont was sued for accusing a parliamentary deputy of having taken a bribe from the prominent Jewish banker Edouard Alphonse de Rothschild to pass a piece of legislation the banker wanted.
Drumont attracted many supporters and was one of the primary sources of antisemitic ideas that would later be embraced by Nazism. He exploited the Panama Company Scandal and reached the peak of his notoriety during the Dreyfus Affair, in which he was the most strident of Alfred Dreyfus' accusers.
Being superstitious, Drumont carried a mandrake root around with him and attacked Georges Boulanger on the basis of palmistry.

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Publications

Works

★ ''La fin d'un monde'' (1888)

★ ''Dernière battaille'' (1890)

★ ''Testament d'un antisémite'' (1891)

★ ''Secret de fourmies'' (1892)

★ ''De l'or de la boue du sang'' (1896), dealing with the Panama scandals

★ ''Les Juifs et l'affaire Dreyfus'' (1899)

★ ''Vieux portraits, vieux cadres'' (1900)

See also

★ Panama scandals

Publications

★ Stéphane Arnoulin, ''M. Edouard Drumont et les Jésuites'' (Paris, 1902)