Dress Rehearsal for Dreyfus: the Duchesse de Berry, Simon Deutz, and France’s First Antisemitic Affaire

In 1832, the duchesse De Berry led a civil war to recapture the French throne for her 11-year-old son. She was betrayed to the government by her trusted confidant, Simon Deutz, the son of France’s chief rabbi, setting off the first outpouring of antisemitism in modern France.