In late February, the consul general in New York reported that “la presse entière et même les organes les plus modérés ont saisie occasion de la condamnation prononcée contre Zola pour attaquer le gouvernement et la France avec une extrême violence et une mauvaise foi insigne. But after January 1898, French ambassadors, chargés d'affaires and various other commentators based in London, Berlin, Rome, Amsterdam, Brussels and elsewhere informed their superiors of the broad belief in Dreyfus's innocence and of the growing wave of anti-French sentiment. Prior to the Esterhazy and Zola trials, most foreigners, like the majority of the French population, accepted “la chose jugée” they assumed that the army had exposed a traitor and that Dreyfus had deserved his fate.
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