 At first anti-Dreyfusards such as Édouard Drumont and Henri Rochefort upon hearing of Henry's suicide felt as though it was as good as declaring the guilt of a forged document and therefore Dreyfus' innocence to the people of France.However, Drumont's La Libre Parole sponsored a public subscription in favour of Henry's widow in which the donors were invited to vent all their anger against Jews.Also a Royalist newspaper titled "La Gazette de France" praised their former conspirator for sacrificing his life for the Fatherland.