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Gallery Package - The Trial of the Century


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ALFRED DREYFUS (1859-1935). <br>French army officer. Dreyfus, stripped of his rank, being paraded in front of the troops after his first trial for treason in 1894: contemporary wood engraving.

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ZOLA: L'AURORE, 1898. <br>Emile Zola's denunciation of the French General Staff's handling of the Dreyfus Affair in a letter to President Felix Faure, as published in Georges Clemenceau's newspaper 'L'Aurore,' 13 January 1898.

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ALFRED DREYFUS (1859-1935) <br>at his second trial in Rennes, France, in 1899: contemporary color lithograph.

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ALFRED DREYFUS (1859-1935). <br>French army officer. Photographed c1894.

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ALFRED DREYFUS (1859-1935). <br>French army officer. 'Dreyfus crucified': drawing by H.G. Ibels dedicated to Joseph Reinach, the French political leader and journalist who was a vigorous champion of Dreyfus.

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Prison of  Captain Dreyfus on the Ile Du Diable an island off the coast of South America.<br><br>He was kept in solitary confinement, the guards were not allowed to speak to him and a stockade was erected so that he could not see the sea, only the sky.

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ALFRED DREYFUS (1859-1935). <br>French army officer, leaving the Court of Justice, 1895.

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ALFRED DREYFUS (1859-1935). <br>French army officer, leaving the court during his second trial in 1899, the guards have all turned their back to him.

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Emile Zola (1840-1902), French writer and journalist, at the time of the Dreyfus affair.

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General Auguste Mercier (born 1833)<br>The first public accuser of Captain Dreyfus, on 28 November 1894, and the coordinator of the anti-Dreyfusards at the Rennes trial, Auguste Mercier was born in Arras in the Pas-de-Calais on 8 December 1833.<br>©2007 TopFoto

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Charles Gabriel Edgard Demange - lawyer to the Drefus family in the Dreyfus Affair<br>©2007 TopFoto<br>

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La rehabilitation de Dreyfus apres la remise des decorations le commandant Dreyfus soutretient avec le general Gillain et le commandant Targe.<br>Alfred Dreyfus 1859-1935. French army officer, victim of miscarriage of justice, anti-Semitism, and cover-up. Employed in the War Ministry, in 1894 he was accused of betraying militrary secrets to Germany, court-martialled, and sent to the penal colony on Devil's Island. French Guiana. When his innocence was discovered 1896 the military establishment tried to conceal it, and the implications of the Dreyfus affair were passionately discussed in the press until he was exonerated in 1906. Dreyfus was born in Mulhouse, East France, of a Jewish family. He had been a prisoner in the French Guiana penal colony for two years when it emerged that the real criminal was a Major Esterhazy: the high command nevertheless attempted to suppress the facts and used forged documents to strengthen their case. After a violent controversy, in which the future prime minister Georges Clemenceau and the novelist Emile Zola championed Dreyfus, he was brought back for a retrial 1899, found guilty with extenuating circumstances, and received a pardon. In 1906 the court of appeal declared him innocent, and he was reinstated in his military rank.

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Anti Semitism in Paris in the 1890s Dreyfus case was in fact based on class distinction and anti semitism and finally the prestige of the army Mob backing was easily worked up Crowds cheered army officers on the way to court some of whom were afterwards found to have forged or made false statements

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Alfred Dreyfus was reinstated in the army 15th October 1906 His colleagues feted him and gave him every respect

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Alfred Dreyfus demoted in rank at Ecole Militaire. Paris, January 5, 1895. &quotLe Petit Journal", January 13, 1895.

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Alfred Dreyfus (c1859-1935) French army officer of Jewish extraction, wrongly accused of passing secret documents to the Germans,  in the courtroom at the time of his first retrial at Rennes. Found guilty and sentenced to 10 years in prison. From Vanity Fair, London, 7 December 1899.

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Eleven years after : Reinstatement of Major Dreyfus : Major Dreyfus , after trial , false accusation , degradation and years of suffering as a convict , and more years of trial in proving his innocence , was made a Chevalier of Honour on the spot where he suffered disgrace<br><br>1906

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Degradation of Captain Dreyfus , for " communicating State documents to a foreign country " : " At a sign from General Darras , a guardsman tore off the gold lace , the buttons , the embroidery and the red bands on the dishonoured officer's uniform . His sword was snapped in two , and cast on the ground . He was then marched round the square as a last disgrace . <br><br>1895

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Alfred Dreyfus in prison, 1895. Dreyfus (c1859-1935) was a French army officer of Jewish extraction wrongly accused of handing secret documents to a German agent. He was court-martialled and disgraced, and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island as a traitor. Although the legal proceedings were irregular, the verdict was widely approved of in French society and the press, where anti-Semitism was rife. The case, which became known as 'l'Affaire Dreyfus' continued to divide France, with the author Emile Zola writing a famous open letter accusing the army of a cover-up. Eventually, in 1906, Dreyfus received a full pardon from the President of France, and he went on to serve with distinction in the French army in the First World War. From 'Le Petit Journal'. (Paris, January 1895).     <br>Credit: Ann Ronan Picture Library / HIP / TopFoto

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" I accuse ", Emile Zola's letter published in " Aurore ", at the time of the Dreyfus affair, on January 13, 1898. RV-322590

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the Dreyfus affair. Esterhazy (1847-1923) RV-65462

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Lîle of the Devil (Islands of the Safety French Guiana) where was possessed Alfred Dreyfus ( 1859-1935 ), French officer, from 1895 till 1899. Paris, B.N.est. RV-322656

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Alfred Dreyfus ( 1859-1935 ), French officer, in Paris. HRL-501139

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Degradation of Alfred Dreyfus ( 1859-1935 ), to preside(officiate) French, on January 5, 1895. The crowd, places Fontenoy, Paris. LAP-46962

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the Dreyfus affair - Incident among Esterhazy and Picquart. Henri Meyer's carving. " The Small Newspaper ", in July 17, 1898. RVB-930467

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the Dreyfus affair - duel Henry-Picquart. Henri Meyer's carving. " The Small Newspaper ", in March 20, 1898. RVB-930456

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Dreyfus affair. &quotAlfred Dreyfus's company, Judas and C°", anti-semitic drawing of Caran d'Ache (1859-1909). First issue of &quotPsst...!", Febuary 5, 1898.

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Affair Dreyfus. Caricature. Dreyfusards taken in the spider's web.

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Alfred Dreyfus (1859-1935), French officer and his children. France.

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