On January 13, 1898, the novelist Émile Zola (1859-1935) published an inflammatory letter to the President of France in the newspaper L’Aurore accusing the government of complicity in the plot against Alfred Dreyfus. This letter, J’Acusse, split the country into two camps-the defenders and the opponents of Dreyfus. Here, Zola is portrayed by his enemies as a pig, dirtying France with excrement, while perched upon his notorious novels. This lithograph is part of Musée des horreurs, a series of fifty-one political posters defaming Dreyfus’s supporters, which appeared weekly following Dreyfus’s retrial in the fall of 1899.