Dreyfus Affair
Father du Lac was in the public eye for many years the personification of the scheming Jesuit. His reputation among the military was high, and he was confessor to Boisdeffre, prominent in the Dreyfus Affair. Joseph Reinach, pioneer historian of the Affair, believed in a Jesuit conspiracy against the Republic in which du Lac was implicated. The involvement of the Jesuits in general, and du Lac in particular, is now described as a myth, set off by Frederick Conybeare, and given substance by Reinach; the thought that there was a Jesuit conspiracy to prevent the rehabilitation of Alfred Dreyfus is called "demonstrably a total delusion".
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