What happened to Dreyfus?
Alfred Dreyfus died in Paris on the evening of July 12th, 1935, aged seventy-four. He died surrounded by his family (his doctor, Pierre-Paul Levy, was his son-in-law) in his comfortable dwelling place in the 17th arrondissement. He died as he would have wished to live, peacefully, like a respectable bourgeois citizen.
What did Dreyfus do?
At the end of 1894 French army captain Alfred Dreyfus, a graduate of the École Polytechnique, a Jew of Alsatian origin, was accused of handing secret documents to the Imperial German military. After a closed trial, he was found guilty of treason and sentenced to life imprisonment.
Is Julia Louis Dreyfus related to Alfred Dreyfus?
She is also a great-great-granddaughter of Léopold Louis-Dreyfus, who in 1851 founded the Louis Dreyfus Group, a French commodities and shipping conglomerate, which members of her family still control; and is distantly related to Alfred Dreyfus of the infamous Dreyfus affair.
Who pardoned Dreyfus?
President Loubet
Timeline
| October 15, 1894 | Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish French artillery Captain, is convicted of selling military secrets to Germany and sent to prison on Devil’s Island. |
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| September 1899 | President Loubet pardons Dreyfus on the condition that he not appeal his case. |
| July 12, 1906 | Dreyfus is fully exonerated by the High Court. |
Who was guilty in the Dreyfus case?
Timeline
| October 15, 1894 | Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish French artillery Captain, is convicted of selling military secrets to Germany and sent to prison on Devil’s Island. |
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| 1896 | French Chief of Staff Lieutenant-Colonel Picquart suspects Major Walsin Esterhazy of being a spy and doubts Dreyfus’ guilt. |
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