STC415975 The Court of Appeal During the Zola Affaire, illustration from \'Le Petit Journal: Supplement illustre\', 17th April 1898 (colour litho) by Meaulle, Fortune Louis (1844-1901); Private Collection; (add.info.: Affaire Zola: La Cour de cassation; M. Loew, President; M. Manau, General Prosecutor; M. Chambareaud, Court reporter; Emile Zola (1840-1902) was a French writer who risked his career in 1898 when he published a defence of Captain Dreyfus, a French army officer accused of communicating French military secrets to the Germans, in a Parisian Newspaper; Zola was brought to trial and convicted for criminal libel in February 1898;); The Stapleton Collection; French, out of copyright.