Edouard Drumont: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

Édouard Drumont (1844-1917) was a French antisemite and proto-fascist. His book La France Juive (Jewish France) attacked the role of Jews in France and argued for their exclusion from society. His newspaper La Libre Parole had the same viewpoint. Drumont attracted many supporters and was one of the primary sources of anitsemitic ideas that would later be embraced by Nazism. Drumont reached the pinnacle of his fame during the Dreyfus Affair where he was the most strident of Dreyfus' accusers.