Download or read book The Dreyfus Affair and the Crisis of French Manhood written by Christopher E. Forth and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2004-02-06 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finally, he examines the relation of the Dreyfus Affair to the culture of forcethat marked French society during the prewar years, thus accounting for the rise of the youthful athlete as a more compelling manly ideal than the bookish and sedentary intellectual.