Alfred Dreyfus

Polanski's historical thriller about the persecution of the French Jewish army officer Alfred Dreyfus, "An Officer and a Spy", is due to premier Friday.

120 years later, the time has come for the army to give Alfred Dreyfus back the honor and years that were taken from him, and I will personally see that it is done.

A Claude Dreyfus B Alfred Dreyfus C Michel Dreyfus D Jean Dreyfus 11.

The Dreyfus story, surprisingly, proved riveting also to American readers, who followed the twists and turns of the legal case and the fate of Alfred Dreyfus in newspapers and magazines across the country.

In 1894 Captain Alfred Dreyfus, of the French Army, was accused of revealing military secrets and, despite flimsy evidence, was court-martialled and sent to Devil's Island.

1894: Alfred Dreyfus, French officer found guilty of selling military secrets, was sent to Devil's Island.

Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish officer in the French army, has just been convicted of treason for passing information to Germany.

Although he was eventually shown to be innocent, his treatment -- he was effectively exiled from his profession -- was compared to that of Alfred Dreyfus.

Captain Alfred Dreyfus, the Jewish officer falsely accused of treason in 1894, was such a polarizing figure in France because his opponents saw him as symbol of national decadence, of a nation whose sacred identity was being diluted by alien blood.

It is true that Alfred Dreyfus's widow, Lucie, survived the Shoah, hiding as a nun in a French convent until the liberation of Paris (she died soon after).