sentences:  For Ranc and Cassagnac, who represented the majority of the press, the closed court was a low manoeuvre to enable the acquittal of Dreyfus, "because the minister is a coward".The proof was "that he "grovels" before the Prussians" by agreeing to publish the denials of the German ambassador in Paris.In other newspapers, such as "L’Éclair" on 13 December 1894