alfred dreyfus in English
(1859-1935) Jewish French army officer who was convicted of treason in 1894 and acquitted in 1906
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1. One of the most famous instances of Cashiering occurred in 1895, when Alfred Dreyfus was cashiered and exiled for treason.
2. 16 An island in the Caribbean Sea off French Guiana. A French penal colony after the 850's, it was used mainly for political prisoners, including Alfred Dreyfus (sequestered 894-8.
3. J’Accuse, (French: “I Accuse”) celebrated open letter by Émile Zola to the president of the French Republic in defense of Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish officer who had been Accused of treason by the French army