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His book 1886 ''La France Juive'' (Jewish France) attacked the role of Jew s in France and argued for their exclusion from society. His newspaper ''La Libre Parole'', produced with his friend Gaston Méry had the same viewpoint. This newspaper also came out against 'Diana Vaughan', an invention of Léo Taxil , before Taxil admitted that his anti- Masonic protégée did not exist in 1897 . ''La Libre Parole'' preferred the ' Seeress ' Henriette Couedon . Drumont was Superstitious and used to carry a Mandrake root around with him and attacked Georges Boulanger on the basis of Palmistry Drumont attracted many supporters and was one of the primary sources of anti-semitic ideas that would later be embraced by Nazism . He exploited the Panama Company Scandal and reached the peak of his notoriety during the Dreyfus Affair , in which he was the most strident of Dreyfus' accusers. SEE ALSO |