Musée des Horreurs

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The Dreyfus Collection includes a set of hand-colored lithographs, titled the Musée des Horreurs (Freak Show) which depict prominent supporters of Dreyfus, statesmen, journalists and Jewish leaders as animals. They were originally published as a series of 51 political posters starting in the Fall of 1899, at the opening of the Paris World’s Fair, and after Dreyfus’ re-trial at Rennes. Among those depicted in caricature are Louis Lépine, Emile Zola, Alfred Dreyfus, Georges Picquart, Georges Clemenceau, Henri Brisson, Fernand Labori, and Ludovis Travieux. The lithographs were created by an artist operating under the pseudonym V. Lenepveu, and were eventually confiscated by the police, who also stopped their production.



Little George The Ex-Partner of Cornaelius Herz At the Kennel The King of Pigs The Bullet Hole
Alfred Dreyfus Zadoc Kahn Francis de Pressense Caroline RÈmy de Guebhard Arthur Ranc
Jean Jaurès Eugène Henri Brisson Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau Gaston Auguste Marquis de Galliffet Ludovic Trarieux
Alexandre Millerand Théophile Delcassé Ernest Morris Jean-Marie de Lanessan Maurice Weil
Ball at the Elysée Georges Leygues Louis-Adrien Lucipia Yves Guyot Emile Loubet
The Fifth Act The Traitor Philipp Bursting Joseph Reinach Alfred Dreyfus
Fr. André Clément Armand Fallières Pierre Baudin Henri Valor does not wait for a number of years
Nathan Mayer Baron James Rothschild Alfonse James de Rothschild Leonora de Rothschild Henri de Rothschild
Charlotte de Rothschild Alfred Dreyfus Albert Decrais The Buffoon Breton

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