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Lucien Herr
Lucien Herr (17 January 1864 – 18 May 1926) was a French intellectual, librarian at the "École Normale Supérieure" in Paris, and mentor to a number of well-known socialist politicians and writers, including Jean Jaurès and Charles Péguy. He was a leading strategist in the Dreyfusard cause (seeking to overturn the wrongful conviction for treason of Captain Alfred Dreyfus).
Influence.
Herr was born at Altkirch, Haut-Rhin. Léon Blum, the first socialist prime minister of France described
"Mercure"'s purple cover. During the early years the magazine was associated with Marcel Proust.
Thaddeus's wife, Misia, participated in the launch of the magazine and served as a model for some covers. The critics Lucien Muhlfeld and Félix Fénéon from 1896 to 1903 served as secretaries, as well as Léon Blum himself.
The journal served as a representative for the cultural and artistic intelligentsia of the time. Starting from 1898, at the instigation of Lucien Herr, it contributed to the Dreyfus affair, siding