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    Alfred Dreyfus

    French artillery officer

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  1. Alfred Dreyfus (French: [alfʁɛd dʁɛfys], German: [ˈalfʁeːt ˈdʁaɪfuːs]; 9 October 1859 – 12 July 1935) was a French artillery officer of Alsatian origin and Jewish ethnicity and faith.

  2. May 25, 2024 · Alfred Dreyfus (born October 9, 1859, Mulhouse, France—died July 12, 1935, Paris) was a French army officer whose trial for treason began a 12-year controversy, known as the Dreyfus Affair, that deeply marked the political and social history of the French Third Republic.

  3. Alfred Dreyfus (1859-1935) was a French Jewish military officer who was wrongfully tried and convicted of treason against France in 1894. The trial and ensuing events are referred to as the “Dreyfus Affair.”

  4. Nov 9, 2009 · Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish military captain, was convicted of treason in a case that exposed religious and political divides at the turn of 20th century France.

  5. May 20, 2024 · Dreyfus affair, political crisis, beginning in 1894 and continuing through 1906, in France during the Third Republic. The controversy centred on the question of the guilt or innocence of army captain Alfred Dreyfus, who had been convicted of treason for allegedly selling military secrets to the Germans in December 1894.

  6. Jan 14, 2015 · A scandal that rocked France in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the Dreyfus affair involved a Jewish artillery captain in the French army, Alfred Dreyfus (1859-1935), who was falsely...

  7. Feb 23, 2024 · On his arrival at General Staff headquarters, Dreyfus was stunned to be summarily accused of spying for the Germans. He was questioned for hours and arrested. The only evidence against him was a...

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