Lucie Dreyfus-Hadamard was the wife of Alfred Dreyfus, and his main and unwavering support during the Affair that shook the couple from 1894 to 1906.
20 Facts About Lucie Dreyfus
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Lucie Dreyfus never ceased to defend the honor of her husband.
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In one of them, Lucie met Alfred Dreyfus, a classmate of her cousin Paul Hadamard.
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Lucie Dreyfus was interested in literature, played the piano and regularly read her favorite historian: Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges.
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In 1894, her husband was arrested, and the Lucie Dreyfus Affair broke out.
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Lucie Dreyfus addressed a petition to the chamber and a petition to the Pope on the 16 September 1896.
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Lucie Dreyfus saw her request for revision of 3 September 1898 be accepted.
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Lucie Dreyfus visited her husband daily in Parisian prisons and then on the Ile de Re.
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Lucie Dreyfus had an important correspondence with her husband, even when he is exiled to Devil's Island.
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Lucie Dreyfus published some letters to raise public awareness of the innocence of her husband.
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Lucie Dreyfus was in Rennes and waited for his appearance during his second trial on 1 July 1899.
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Lucie Dreyfus was sentenced again to ten years of imprisonment.
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Lucie Dreyfus's husband was finally rehabilitated, and rejoined the army and was awarded the Legion of Honor on 21 July 1903.
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Alfred Lucie Dreyfus died in Paris of a heart attack on 12 July 1935.
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Lucie Dreyfus was deported to the East, and died of typhus in Auschwitz in January 1944, aged 25.
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Lucie Dreyfus is buried next to her husband at the Montparnasse cemetery.
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Lucie Dreyfus was a second cousin of a French mathematician Jacques Hadamard who was active in the Dreyfus affair.
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Lucie Dreyfus was a great aunt of French singer Yves Duteil who in the second half of the 20th century made an album on the subject.
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In Dreyfus Lucie Dreyfus was played by Grete Mosheim.
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In Lucie Dreyfus she was played by Beatrix Thomson.