Conclusion
The strength of the Dreyfus Affair is its amazing elasticity in cause and meaning. One view could say that it was mainly about anti-Semitism, another could say it was about national honor, and justice. There is always the danger of taking too narrow a view of the implications and causes of a certain event in history. On the same token, there is the threat of reading to much into historical accounts, applying too much weight to insignificant and incidental similarities, and assigning too many corollaries to the event itself. This paper has presented what causes and conditions might have contributed to the Dreyfus Affair, for their is no denying that something was definitely going on in France in the last years of the 19th century to cause a minor act of treason to escalate into the proportions that it did.
