Alfred Dreyfus: Facts & Related Content

News

France Moves to Atone by Elevating Alfred Dreyfus as Antisemitism Spreads June 3, 2025, 11:40 PM ET (New York Times)
Alfred Dreyfus to be promoted 130 years after treason conviction June 2, 2025, 9:07 PM ET (The Telegraph)
Captain Alfred Dreyfus is up for posthumous promotion June 2, 2025, 4:50 AM ET (Le Monde)

Facts

Born October 9, 1859 • MulhouseFrance
Died July 12, 1935 (aged 75) • ParisFrance
Role In Dreyfus affair

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Ney, Michel
Michel Ney
French duke
Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy
French military officer
Philippe-Emmanuel Gondi
French military commander
Bernard-Louis, marquis de Chauvelin
French general and diplomat
Jacques-Louis David: The Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries
Napoleon I
emperor of France
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres: painting of Joan of Arc
St. Joan of Arc
French heroine
Charles de Gaulle
Charles de Gaulle
president of France
Napoleon III
Napoleon III
emperor of France
Henry IV, undated copperplate engraving.
Henry IV
king of France
Francis I
Francis I
king of France
Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban
Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban
French military engineer
Lazare Carnot, lithograph by Ambroise Tardieu, after an engraving by C.A. Forestier
Lazare Carnot
French military engineer
The Great Condé, engraving by Robert Nanteuil, 1662
Louis II de Bourbon, 4 prince de Condé
French general and prince
The Marquis de Lafayette
Marquis de Lafayette
French noble
Ferdinand Foch
Ferdinand Foch
marshal of France
Arthur, constable de Richemont
French military officer
Philippe Pétain
Philippe Pétain
French general