Victim
Alfred Dreyfus
- Born
- 9 October 1859
- Died
- 12 July 1935, aged about 76
- Record
- Wikidata Q171826 · Wikipedia
Victim in The Dreyfus Affair
Artillery captain wrongly convicted of treason in 1894 and again in 1899; pardoned in 1899 and fully exonerated in 1906.
1894–1906 · Paris, Devil's Island and Rennes · Disputed verdict
A torn note from a wastebasket, a Jewish captain sent to Devil's Island, and the real spy acquitted in three minutes: the injustice that split France. Read the case.
Dated events
Dreyfus is made to take a dictation test at the War Ministry and arrested.
A closed court-martial unanimously convicts Dreyfus of treason after judges see a secret file.
Dreyfus is publicly degraded in the courtyard of the École Militaire.
Dreyfus is placed in solitary confinement on Devil's Island.
Major Henry forges a document naming Dreyfus.
The Rennes court-martial convicts Dreyfus again, with extenuating circumstances, and sentences him to ten years.
President Loubet pardons Dreyfus; he is released two days later.
The Court of Cassation quashes the Rennes verdict and declares Dreyfus innocent.