On February 11, 1912, an estimated 120,000 people in Paris
participated in a ceremony that was at once moving and macabre: a
public procession to Pere Lachaise Cemetery, where the remains of a
soldier named Albert Aernoult would be incinerated after a series
of angry speeches denouncing the circumstances of his death. This
ceremony occurred at a pivotal point in the "Aernoult-Rousset
Affair," a three-year agitation over the practice of French
military justice that was labeled a "proletarian Dreyfus Affair."
Aernoult had died in one of the French Army's Algerian penal camps
in the summer of 1909, allegedly at the hands of his officers. His
death came to the attention of the public through the intervention
of a fellow prisoner, a career criminal named emile Rousset, who
provoked prosecution in a military court in order to launch his own
"J'accuse "against camp officers. Rousset's charges seemed to be
bearing fruit until he himself was indicted for murder, whereupon
the entire Affair took on a new intensity.Cerullo's lively,
suspenseful account of this dramatic story, which has never been
fully told, will become the standard. In the current era of special
military courts, commissions, and prisons, the subject of military
justice is an urgent one. "Minotaur "will interest historians of
modern France, military historians and students of military
justice, and legal scholars, while also appealing to general
readers of modern European history and military law.
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