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French radical leftist; Dreyfusard, erstwhile bleeding-heart supporter of Capt. Alfred Dreyfus, wrongly convicted of treason in 1894 and exonerated in 1906; Cagoulard (from French wearer of a monk's cowl), a member of a sort of 1930s French Ku Klux Klan; and Communard, an adherent of the Commune of Paris, a group that took over the municipal government of the French capital and played a leading role in the post-revolutionary Reign of Terror.
When the Dreyfus case was raging, clearly the result of anti-Semitism in the French army, Chekhov, then in France, was a fiery Dreyfusard.
A passionate Dreyfusard, Monet supported his friend Zola in his defense of the French army officer falsely accused of passing secrets to the Germans.