The New International Encyclopædia/Reinach, Joseph

REINACH, rï'näK. Joseph (1856— ). A French publicist, born in Paris. He studied at tbe Lycée Condorcet and in the faculty of law of the University of Paris, was admitted to the bar in 1877, wrote for the Dix-neuvième Siècle and Gambetta's Republique Française, and in 1881-82 was private secretary to Gambetta, then president of the Cabinet council. Having reëntered Journalism, in 1886 he became proprietor with Deynarouse of the Republique Française, in which he supported the Union-Republican group. In 1889 he was elected as Liberal-Republican Deputy for Digne (Basses-AIpes), in 1893 was reëlected, but in 1898 failed of reëlection because of opposition to his attitude in the Dreyfus case. In the Chamber of Deputies he was a member of the committees on the budget and on the army, and took a prominent part in the legislative debates. He became departmental councilor of Basses-Alpes for the Canton of Moustiers in 1896. He appeared prominently in connection with the Dreyfus case, denounced the introduction of secret documents into the trial of 1894, the forgeries of Paty du Clam and Henry, and the complicity of the latter with Esterhazy, and was associated with Scheurer-Kestner in the movement for revision. He published on the case several pamphlets, including La voix de I'ile (1898), Les enseignements de I'histoire (1898), A l'ile du diable (1898), Vers la justice par Ia vérité (1898). Le crépuscule des traitres (1899), and Les faits nouveaux (1899), and the volumes Les bles d'hiver (1901), Histoire de I'affaire Dreyfus, Le procés de 1894 (1901), and Histoire de I'affaire Dreyfus, Esterhazy (1903). The brochure Les enseignements de I'histoire originally appeared in the Siécle, and caused Reinach to be expelled from his captaincy in the territorial army for "a gross offense against discipline" and to be deprived of the decoration of the Legion of Honor. Among his further publications are: La Servie et le Monténêgro (1876); Voyage en Orient (1879); Le ministére Gambetta (1884); Etudes de littérature et d'histoire (1888-89); and Les petites Catilinaires (1888-89), collected articles against Boulanger. He also edited the Discours et plaidoyers politiques de Gambetta (11 vols., 1881-85), and Dépêches, circulaires, décrets, proclamations et discours de Gambetta (1886).