Minotaur: French Military Justice and the Aernoult-Rousset by John Cerullo
By John Cerullo
On February eleven, 1912, an predicted 120,000 humans in Paris participated in a rite that was once immediately relocating and macabre: a public procession to Père Lachaise Cemetery, the place the is still of a soldier named Albert Aernoult will be incinerated after a chain of indignant speeches denouncing the situations of his demise. This rite happened at a pivotal element within the “Aernoult-Rousset Affair,” a three-year agitation over the perform of French army justice that was once categorised a “proletarian Dreyfus Affair.”
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