Auguste Dreyfus (28 June 1827 – 25 May 1897) was a French businessman who made his fortune by financing the Peruvian trade in guano. Dreyfus joined a small...
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Dreyfus's family contacted the President of the Senate Auguste Scheurer-Kestner to draw attention to the weakness of the evidence against Dreyfus. Scheurer-Kestner...
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Alfred Dreyfus (French: [alfʁɛd dʁɛfys], German: [ˈalfʁeːt ˈdʁaɪfuːs]; 9 October 1859 – 12 July 1935) was a French artillery officer of Alsatian origin...
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Auguste Mercier (8 December 1833 – 3 March 1921) was a French general and Minister of War at the time of the Dreyfus Affair. Auguste Mercier was born in...
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(born Dreyfus, 1932–2024), French actress Alfred Dreyfus (1859–1935), French Jewish military officer and focus of the Dreyfus affair Auguste Dreyfus (1827–1897)...
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Château de Pontchartrain (section Dreyfus)
and collector Auguste Dreyfus (1827–1897) and his wife Luisa Gonzalez de Andia Orbegoso (1847-1924), Marquise de Villahermosa, whom Dreyfus had married...
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Lucie Dreyfus-Hadamard (23 August 1869 – 14 December 1945) was the wife of Alfred Dreyfus. Lucie Hadamard was born into a Parisian Jewish family in 1869...
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grandfather Édouard Dreyfus (1788–1866) was a Jewish shopkeeper in Wissembourg, who moved to Paris. His father, Auguste Dreyfus (1827–1897) had ventured...
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vice-president of the Senate, Auguste Scheurer-Kestner, a fellow Alsatian, spoke up for a new examination of the case. In 1897, Mathieu Dreyfus hired expert French...
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The Dreyfus Affair began when a bordereau (detailed memorandum) offering to procure French military secrets was recovered by French agents from the waste...
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Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy (category People associated with the Dreyfus affair)
Aux sources de l'affaire: l'Affaire Dreyfus d'après les archives (1959), p. 137 "Généalogie de Jean Marie Auguste WALSIN-ESTERHAZY". Geneanet. Serman...
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company, Louis Dreyfus Group. Louis-Dreyfus was born in Zurich to a Jewish family, the eldest of three sons of Léopold Louis-Dreyfus (1833–1915) and...
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Armand du Paty de Clam (category People associated with the Dreyfus affair)
French army officer, an amateur graphologist, and a key figure in the Dreyfus affair. Armand du Paty de Clam's father and grandfather were both lawyers...
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Jean Sandherr (category People associated with the Dreyfus affair)
Nicolas Jean Robert Conrad Auguste Sandherr (6 June 1846 – 24 May 1897) was a French military officer involved in the Dreyfus Affair. Sandherr was born...
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The Dreyfus Affair (French: L'affaire Dreyfus), also known as Dreyfus Court-Martial, is an 1899 series of eleven short silent films by Georges Méliès...
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the Dreyfus case in the summer of 1897. Born in Mulhouse on 11 February 1833 as Auguste Scheurer, his father was a Republican industrialist. Auguste attended...
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agronomist, born in Wissembourg. Joseph Guerber [fr] (1824–1909), priest. Auguste Dreyfus (1827–1897), businessman who made his fortune by financing the Peruvian...
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of the Pink Panther, Dreyfus holds the rank of Chief Inspector—but again becomes insane by the end of the film—which shows Dreyfus straitjacketed in a...
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Georges Picquart (category People associated with the Dreyfus affair)
Army officer and Minister of War. He is best known for his role in the Dreyfus affair, in which he played a key role in uncovering the real culprit. Picquart...
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Shepherd as Georges Clemenceau Arthur Hardy as Gen. Auguste Mercier Alexander Sarner as Mathieu Dreyfus Frederick Leister as Edgar Demange J. Fisher White...
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J'Accuse...! (category Dreyfus affair)
an open letter, written by Émile Zola in response to the events of the Dreyfus affair, that was published on 13 January 1898 in the newspaper L'Aurore...
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signed a treaty with the Jewish–French businessman Auguste Dreyfus. For its part, the House of Dreyfus paid S/. two million in advance, and undertook to...
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Jean Casimir-Perier (category People associated with the Dreyfus affair)
Jean Casimir-Perier was born in Paris on 8 November 1847, the son of Auguste Casimir-Perier, the grandson of Casimir Pierre Perier, premier of Louis...
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husband. Manuel was the son of Luis Dreyfus y Gonzalez de Andia, Marquis of Villahermosa (son of Auguste Dreyfus by his second wife) and Félicie de Talleyrand-Périgord...
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An Officer and a Spy (film) (category Films about the Dreyfus affair)
J'accuse) is a 2019 historical drama film directed by Roman Polanski about the Dreyfus affair, with a screenplay by Polanski and Robert Harris based on Harris's...
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While Alfred Dreyfus was serving his sentence on Devil's Island, in France a number of people began to question his guilt. The most notable of these was...
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Hubert-Joseph Henry (category People associated with the Dreyfus affair)
Lieutenant-Colonel in 1897 involved in the Dreyfus affair. Arrested for having forged evidence against Alfred Dreyfus, he was found dead in his prison cell...
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Prince de Joinville Édouard André Emmanuel Bocher Maurice Cottier Auguste Dreyfus Alexandre Dumas Viscount Étienne de Ganay Viscount Henri Greffulhe...
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July 1869 the new government contracted with a French businessman, Auguste Dreyfus to sell two million tons of guano over a six-year period. This contract...
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Émile Zola (section Dreyfus affair)
the exoneration of the falsely accused and convicted army officer Alfred Dreyfus, which is encapsulated in his renowned newspaper opinion headlined J'Accuse…...
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