Benjamin Franklin Martin is Katheryn J., Lewis C., and Benjamin Price Professor of History at Louisiana State University and the author of five previous books, Count Albert de Mun, The Hypocrisy of Justice in the Belle Epoque, Crime and Criminal Justice Under the Third Republic, The Shame of Marianne, France and the Aprés Guerre, 1918-1924. He has been a consulting scholar to the Jewish Museum in New York for the celebrated exhibition The Dreyfus Affair: Art, Truth and Justice and a featured contributor to documentaries by The History Channel and The Learning Channel.