Alfred Dreyfus — Erosophia Encyclopedia

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Alfred Dreyfus — The captain unjustly convicted and later rehabilitated, 1859–1935

An Alsatian Jewish captain, convicted in 1894 on a memorandum not in his hand, degraded, deported to Devil’s Island — rehabilitated on 12 July 1906, reinstated, he served again in 1914 and died on a 12th of July, twenty-nine years to the day after his rehabilitation. (Editorial synthesis)

Alfred Dreyfus was born on 9 October 1859. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)

Alfred Dreyfus was born in Mulhouse. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)

Alfred Dreyfus died on 12 July 1935. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)

Alfred Dreyfus died in Paris. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)

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