sentences:  The real culprit, they said, was Lieutenant-Colonel Picquart.The investigation was moving towards a predictable conclusion until Esterhazy's former mistress, Madame de Boulancy, published letters in "Le Figaro" in which ten years earlier Esterhazy had expressed violently his hatred for France and his contempt for the French army.The militarist press rushed to the rescue of Esterhazy with an unprecedented antisemitic campaign.