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 — Läs på http://www.britannica.com/biography/Alfred-Dreyfus