VOL. 23, NO. 15	FEBRUARY 20, 1998

Record Photo by Joe Pineiro.

 major international conference was held on the Columbia campus Feb. 13-15 to commemorate the centennial of Emile Zola’s celebrated 1898 “J’accuse” open letter to the French president denouncing the wrongful conviction of Alfred Dreyfus. Dreyfus’ granddaughter, Simone Perl, above, was a guest of honor at the conference organized by Professor Henri Mitterand of the department of French and romance philology, who is a leading authority on the works of Zola. Perl is shown with a photograph of her grandfather from an exhibit on the Dreyfus Affair, which will remain open in the Maison Francaise through Fri., Feb. 20.