84 Facts About Dreyfus Trial

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Dreyfus Trial affair was a political scandal that divided the French Third Republic from 1894 until its resolution in 1906.

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Dreyfus Trial was a 35-year-old Alsatian French artillery officer of Jewish descent.

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Dreyfus Trial was falsely convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for communicating French military secrets to the German Embassy in Paris, and was imprisoned on Devil's Island in French Guiana, where he spent nearly five years.

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In 1906, Dreyfus Trial was exonerated and reinstated as a major in the French Army.

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Dreyfus Trial served during the whole of World War I, ending his service with the rank of lieutenant colonel.

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6.

In July 1897 Dreyfus Trial's family contacted the President of the Senate Auguste Scheurer-Kestner to draw attention to the tenuousness of the evidence against Dreyfus Trial.

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Scheurer-Kestner reported three months later that he was convinced Dreyfus Trial was innocent, and persuaded Georges Clemenceau, a newspaper reporter and former member of the Chamber of Deputies.

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8.

Dreyfus Trial was convicted again and sentenced to ten years of hard labour, though the sentence was commuted due to extenuating circumstances.

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9.

Dreyfus Trial accepted the presidential pardon granted by President Emile Loubet.

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10.

Dreyfus Trial was reinstated in the army with the rank of Major and participated in the First World War.

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11.

Dreyfus Trial's government faced the opposition of the left and of some Republicans and made sure to keep the support of the right.

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12.

Dreyfus Trial sought to appease religious, social, and economic tensions and conducted a fairly conservative policy.

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13.

Dreyfus Trial succeeded in improving stability, and it was under this stable government that the Dreyfus Affair occurred.

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Dreyfus Trial affair occurred in the context of the annexation of Alsace and Moselle by the Germans, an event that fed the most extreme nationalism.

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Dreyfus Trial immediately initiated two secret investigations, one administrative and one judicial.

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In particular, Dreyfus Trial was at that time the only Jewish officer to be recently passed by the General Staff.

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17.

Dreyfus Trial was therefore "the probable author" of the bordereau in the eyes of the General Staff.

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18.

Dreyfus Trial even wrote that "the nature of the writing on the bordereau excludes disguised handwriting".

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19.

Dreyfus Trial was initially no more positive than Gobert but he did not exclude the possibility of its being the writing of Dreyfus.

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20.

Later, under pressure from the military, he argued that Dreyfus Trial had autocopied it and developed his theory of "autoforgery".

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21.

Mrs Dreyfus Trial was informed of the arrest the same day by a police raid to search their apartment.

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22.

On 1 November 1894, Alfred's brother, Mathieu Dreyfus Trial, became aware of the arrest after being called urgently to Paris.

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23.

Dreyfus Trial became the architect of the arduous fight for the liberation of his brother.

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24.

Dreyfus Trial had the power to stop the process but did not, perhaps because of an exaggerated confidence in military justice.

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25.

On 4 December 1894 Dreyfus Trial was referred to the first Military Court with this dossier.

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26.

For Ranc and Cassagnac, who represented the majority of the press, the closed court was a low manoeuvre to enable the acquittal of Dreyfus Trial, "because the minister is a coward".

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27.

Dreyfus Trial opened on 19 December 1894 at one o'clock and a closed court was immediately pronounced.

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28.

Dreyfus Trial was indeed a very patriotic officer highly rated by his superiors, very rich and with no tangible reason to betray France.

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29.

The fact of Dreyfus Trial's Jewishness was used only by the right-wing press and was not presented in court.

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30.

Dreyfus Trial argued that leaks betraying the General Staff had been suspected to exist since February 1894 and that "a respectable person" accused Captain Dreyfus.

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31.

Dreyfus Trial swore on oath that the traitor was Dreyfus, pointing to the crucifix hanging on the wall of the court.

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32.

Dreyfus Trial was apoplectic with rage and demanded to be confronted with his anonymous accuser, which was rejected by the General Staff.

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33.

Dreyfus Trial contradicted himself by saying that he read only one document, "which was enough".

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34.

Dreyfus Trial was not sentenced to death, as it had been abolished for political crimes since 1848.

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35.

Dreyfus Trial had the right to see his wife twice a week in a long room, each of them at one end, with the director of the prison in the middle.

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36.

Dreyfus Trial stayed one month in prison on Ile Royale and was transferred to Devil's Island on 14 April 1895.

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37.

Dreyfus Trial became sick and shaken by fevers that got worse every year.

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38.

Dreyfus Trial underwent censorship by the commandant even when he received mail from his wife Lucie, whereby they encouraged each other.

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39.

On 6 September 1896, the conditions of life for Dreyfus Trial worsened again; he was chained double looped, forcing him to stay in bed motionless with his ankles shackled.

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40.

For two long months, Dreyfus Trial was plunged into deep despair, convinced that his life would end on this remote island.

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41.

Dreyfus Trial was the chief architect of the rehabilitation of his brother and spent his time, energy and fortune to gather an increasingly powerful movement for a retrial in December 1894, despite the difficulties of the task:.

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42.

Dreyfus Trial discovered a document called the "petit bleu": a telegram that was never sent, written by von Schwarzkoppen and intercepted at the German Embassy at the beginning of March 1896.

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43.

Dreyfus Trial procured the "secret file" given to the judges in 1894 and was astonished by the lack of evidence against Dreyfus, and became convinced of his innocence.

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44.

Parallel to the investigations of Picquart, the defenders of Dreyfus Trial were informed in November 1897 that the identity of the writer of the "bordereau" was Esterhazy.

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45.

Mathieu Dreyfus Trial had a reproduction of the bordereau published by Le Figaro.

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46.

Dreyfus Trial Affair occupied more and more discussions, something the political world did not always recognize.

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47.

The trial was not normal: the civil trial Mathieu and Lucy Dreyfus requested was denied, and the three handwriting experts decided the writing in the bordereau was not Esterhazy's.

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48.

Dreyfus Trial's published the interviews in September 1898, reporting his confession and writing a leader column accusing the French military of antisemitism and calling for a retrial for Dreyfus.

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49.

Dreyfus Trial was a leader in the literary world and was fully conscious of it.

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50.

Dreyfus Trial's trial forced a new public review of both the Dreyfus and Esterhazy affairs.

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51.

Dreyfus Trial was absolutely convinced of Dreyfus's guilt, a conviction reinforced by the legend of the confession .

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52.

Dreyfus Trial was placed under arrest at the Mont-Valerien fortress, where he killed himself the next day by cutting his own throat with a razor.

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53.

Dreyfus Trial resigned on 8 January 1899 as a hero of the nationalist cause.

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54.

The Dreyfus Trial affair led to a clear reorganization of the French political landscape.

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55.

Dreyfus Trial took on the legal files and decided on a further investigation.

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56.

Mornard who represented Lucie Dreyfus Trial argued without any difficulty or opposition from the prosecution.

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57.

Alfred Dreyfus Trial was in no way aware of what was happening thousands of kilometres from him.

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58.

On 5 June 1899 Alfred Dreyfus Trial was notified of the decision of the Supreme Court on the judgement of 1894.

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59.

Dreyfus Trial disembarked on 30 June 1899 in Port Haliguen on the Quiberon peninsula in the greatest secrecy, "a clandestine and nocturnal return".

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60.

Dreyfus Trial was remanded on 7 August 1899 before the military court of the Breton capital.

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Dreyfus Trial opened on 7 August 1899 in an atmosphere of extreme tension.

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62.

Dreyfus Trial asked him to act in the spirit of the revised judgment of the Supreme Court.

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63.

On 9 September 1899 the court rendered its verdict: Dreyfus Trial was convicted of treason, but "with extenuating circumstances" and sentenced to ten years' imprisonment and a further degradation.

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64.

Fernand Labori, Jaures, and Clemenceau, with the consent of Picquart openly accused Alfred Dreyfus Trial of accepting the pardon and only gently protesting the amnesty law.

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65.

The court identified three events for review, the demonstration of the falsification of the Panizzardi telegram, demonstration of a date change on a document in the 1894 trial and demonstration of the fact that Dreyfus had not removed the minutes related to heavy artillery in the army.

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66.

Dreyfus Trial began a divestiture of the military justice system, which did not conclude until 1982.

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The Court focused on the legal aspects only and observed that Dreyfus Trial did not have a duty to be returned before a Military Court for the simple reason that it should never have taken place due to the total absence of charges:.

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Whereas in the final analysis of the accusation against Dreyfus Trial nothing remains standing and setting aside the judgment of the Military Court leaves nothing that can be considered to be a crime or misdemeanour; therefore by applying the final paragraph of Article 445 no reference to another court should be pronounced.

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69.

Dreyfus Trial was reinstated in the army with the rank of artillery major by law on 13 July 1906.

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Dreyfus Trial was driven to do this for Action Francaise not only to disrupt the ceremony for the "two traitors" Zola and Dreyfus, but to remake the Dreyfus trial through a new trial, a revenge of some sort.

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Apart from Major Du Paty de Clam, Dreyfus Trial was the only officer directly involved in the Affair to serve in the war.

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Some the Dreyfus Trial affair marked French society as a tortured society.

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73.

Dreyfus Trial's commitment became unwavering alongside Georges Clemenceau and from 1899 under the influence of Lucien Herr.

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74.

The Dreyfus Trial Affair spread hatred of Jews through all strata of society, a movement that certainly began with the success of Jewish France by Edouard Drumont in 1886.

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75.

Shock of the Dreyfus Trial Affair affected the Zionist movement "which found fertile ground for its emergence".

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76.

Dreyfus Trial had originally been a fanatic supporter for assimilation of Jews into European Gentile society.

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77.

The Dreyfus Trial Affair shook Herzl's view on the world, and he became completely enveloped in a tiny movement calling for the restoration of a Jewish State within the biblical homeland in the Land of Israel.

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Dreyfus Trial organized on 29 August 1897, the First Zionist Congress in Basel and is considered the "inventor of Zionism as a real political movement".

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Consequently, the Dreyfus Trial Affair is seen as a turning point in Jewish history and as the beginning of the Zionist movement.

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80.

Dreyfus Trial said that nothing could repair the humiliations and injustices Dreyfus had suffered, and "let us not aggravate it by forgetting, deepening or repeating them".

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An army colonel was cashiered in 1994 for publishing an article suggesting that Dreyfus Trial was guilty; far-right politician Jean-Marie Le Pen's lawyer responded that Dreyfus Trial's exoneration was "contrary to all known jurisprudence".

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82.

Dreyfus Trial Affair is distinguished by the large number of books published on this subject.

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83.

Dreyfus Trial's work is the foundation of all subsequent historical studies.

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84.

Vincent Duclert's Biography of Alfred Dreyfus Trial includes, in 1300 pages, the complete correspondence of Alfred and Lucie Dreyfus Trial from 1894 to 1899.

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