“On my honor and my conscience the declaration of the jury is: as concerns Perrenx, yes, by a majority vote. As concerns Zola, yes, by a majority vote.”
Then the air was filled with cries of ‘Long live the army! Long live France! Down with the insulters! To the door with Jews! Death to Zola!’ amid which Zola sadly cried: ‘These people are cannibals.’
The court then retired to deliberate upon the sentence. Returning a few minutes later, it condemned M. Perrenx, the gérant of “L’Aurore,” to an imprisonment of four months and the payment of a fine of three thousand francs; upon M. Emile Zola it inflicted the maximum penalty of one year’s imprisonment and a fine of three thousand francs.
The trial thus being ended, the court adjourned; but a day or two later the council for the accused appealed from the verdict to the higher court.
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