Alfred Dreyfus
See also: Dreyfus
Alfred Dreyfus (Mulhouse, October 9th 1859 - Paris, July 12th 1935) was a French officer Juif of Alsatian origin . Shown, then condemned for treason before being pardoned, then rehabilitated, it was in the middle of a social conflict and political major of the III {{E}} République, called the Affaire Dreyfus.
Biography
The last of the 9 children of Jacques Dreyfus, industrialist, and Rachel Katz, it was born the October 9th 1859 with Mulhouse. Alfred Dreyfus passes his childhood in the family home street of the Savage.In 1872, its family chooses French nationality and leaves the Alsace for Paris. After the annexation of Alsace-Lorraine by the Germany in 1871, the inhabitants have the possibility of choosing between French nationality or allemande. It then decides to engage in the army, wishing to see the Alsace returning to France.
It enters to the Polytechnic school in 1878, becoming officer of artillery, and with the École of War in 1890.
The same year, he marries Lucie Hadamard (August 23rd 1869 - December 14th 1945), of an easy family of diamond cutter. They have two children, Pierre Dreyfus (April 5th 1891 - December 28th 1946) and Jeanne Levy Dreyfus (February 22nd 1893 - April 30th 1981).
In 1893, it is attached to the staff of the army to the Ministère of the War like Capitaine - training.
In 1894, service of against-espionage (" the Office of Statistique" ) depend on the Ministry for the War discovers a bearing form on French military secrecies, with the embassy of Germany, in particular comprising information on artillery. Alfred Dreyfus seems the ideal suspect very quickly: he works with the staff, he is artillerist, and has Alsatian and Jewish origins. Moreover, its writing comprises similarities with that of the form.
The October 15th, it is stopped and imprisoned with the Prison of Seek-midday. A lawsuit with place in Rennes the December 19th 1894. Dreyfus is condemned to degradation and the deportation a few days after, the 22. It is degraded the January 5th 1895 in the main courtyard of the Military academy of Paris in front of a furious crowd which shouts “With bottom the Jews! ”.
February 22nd, 1895 one embarks it in the City-of-Saint-Nazaire , which moors with the island Royale on March 12th. Kept in total secrecy on Royal, it poses foot on the Devil's Island five days later. At the beginning it had a relative freedom of movement, though strongly suspecté to escape, but in 1896 the rumor of an escape bid from its share is spread, and the guards make build a palisade around its box. It cannot see the sea any more and is confined inside the enclosure surrounding its hut. July 12th, 2006 a ceremony was organized with the Military academy in the presence of the president of the Jacques Chirac Republic surrounded of the Prime Minister and several members of the government in order to return a solemn Hommage to him.
See also: S: Short speech of Mr. Jacques Chirac in connection with Alfred Dreyfus in 2006
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