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The Dreyfus Affair — The scandal that split France (1894–1906)
A memorandum, a Jewish captain convicted of treason on secret evidence, the degradation, Devil’s Island — then truth on the march: twelve years that cut France in two, from family dinners to the press, until rehabilitation. (Editorial synthesis)
The Dreyfus Affair began on 15 October 1894. (source: Encyclopædia Universalis)
The Dreyfus Affair ended on 12 July 1906. (source: Archives nationales and Assemblée nationale)
The Dreyfus Affair ended in Captain Dreyfus’s rehabilitation and a lasting fracture of French society. (source: Larousse and Assemblée nationale)
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