--- title: 'Le Traître: Dégradation d''Alfred Dreyfus (The Traitor: Degradation of Alfred Dreyfus), Le Petit Journal, 13 January 1895' url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/le-traitre-petit-journal-dreyfus-1895/ description: Cover of a mass-circulation illustrated weekly showing the public military degradation of Captain Alfred Dreyfus in the courtyard of the Ecole militaire… section: Collection --- [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) [![Le Traître: Dégradation d'Alfred Dreyfus (The Traitor: Degradation of Alfred Dreyfus), Le Petit Journal, 13 January 1895](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/le-traitre-petit-journal-dreyfus-1895.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/le-traitre-petit-journal-dreyfus-1895.jpg) # Le Traître: Dégradation d'Alfred Dreyfus (The Traitor: Degradation of Alfred Dreyfus), Le Petit Journal, 13 January 1895 Cover of a mass-circulation illustrated weekly showing the public military degradation of Captain Alfred Dreyfus in the courtyard of the Ecole militaire, Paris: a mounted officer breaks his sword over the ground while ranked troops look on. The caption gives the man a single-word label, 'LE TRAITRE', ahead of his name, so the news picture carries the verdict as his title. - **Date:** January 13, 1895 - **Period:** [Pre-1914](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#era=pre-1914) - **Made by:** Le Petit Journal (Supplément illustré); illustrator Henri Meyer - **Region:** [Western and Central Europe](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#region=western-central-europe) - **Country:** [France](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#country=france) - **Medium:** [Newspaper pages](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#medium=newspaper-page) - **Issuer type:** [Media](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#actor=media) - **Regime:** [Dupuy Government](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#regime=dupuy-government) - **Leader:** [Charles Dupuy](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#leader=charles-dupuy) - **Audience:** [Domestic public](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#audience=domestic-public) - **Purpose:** [Warn or inform](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#purpose=warn-inform) - **Themes:** [War and the military](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=war-military), [Security and surveillance](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=security-surveillance), [Media and information](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=media-information) - **Event:** [Dreyfus Affair](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#event=dreyfus-affair) - **Techniques:** [Name-calling](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/name-calling/) - **Source:** Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are - **Source:** [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:D%C3%A9gradation_d'Alfred_Dreyfus_-_Le_Petit_Journal_(janvier_1895).jpg), retrieved September 29, 2026 - **Rights:** Public domain (per Wikimedia Commons: Henri Meyer d. 1899; published 1895) Henri Meyer (1841-1899), Le Petit Journal, Supplément illustré, no. 217, 13 January 1895. Via Wikimedia Commons. ## Text on the object Original (French) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` Le Petit Journal Chaque jour 5 centimes Le Supplément illustré chaque semaine 5 centimes SUPPLÉMENT ILLUSTRÉ Huit pages : CINQ centimes ABONNEMENTS TROIS MOIS / SIX MOIS / UN AN Paris .......... 1 fr. / 2 fr. / 3 fr 50 Départements 1 fr. / 2 fr. / 4 fr. Étranger ...... 1 50 / 2 50 / 5 fr. Sixième année DIMANCHE 13 JANVIER 1895 Numéro 217 [signature in image] H. Meyer LE TRAITRE Dégradation d'Alfred Dreyfus ``` English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader) ``` The Little Journal Every day 5 centimes The Illustrated Supplement every week 5 centimes ILLUSTRATED SUPPLEMENT Eight pages: FIVE centimes SUBSCRIPTIONS THREE MONTHS / SIX MONTHS / ONE YEAR Paris .......... 1 fr. / 2 fr. / 3 fr 50 Departments 1 fr. / 2 fr. / 4 fr. Abroad ...... 1 50 / 2 50 / 5 fr. Sixth year SUNDAY 13 JANUARY 1895 Number 217 H. Meyer THE TRAITOR Degradation of Alfred Dreyfus ``` Read from the 960 px thumbnail; masthead and caption are typeset. English is a literal machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader. 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