Alfred Dreyfus | French military officer | Britannica

Alfred Dreyfus, 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. Dreyfus was the son of a wealthy Jewish textile manufacturer. In 1882 he entered the École
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