Quelques défenseurs des droits de l’Homme face à la cause arménienne (fin xixe - début xxe siècles)

Abstract

This article relates the commitment and actions of prominent French figures of the League for Human Rights – most of whom had been previously involved in the defence of Captain Dreyfus – in favour of Ottoman Armenians, from the late 19th century to the early 20th century.

Keywords

• intellectuals
• supporters of Dreyfus
• League for Human Rights
• Armenian genocide
• massacres of 1894-1896