Dreyfus affair
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The Dreyfus affair was a political scandal that divided the Third French Republic from 1894 until its resolution in 1906. The scandal began in December 1894 when Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a 35-year-old
Dreyfus in 1894, the year he was prosecuted
General Raoul Le Mouton de Boisdeffre, architect of the military alliance with Russia
No. 35 Amnistie populaire of the Musée des Horreurs depicts the hanged corpse of an antisemitic caricature of Alfred Dreyfus.
Photograph of the bordereau dated 13 October 1894. The original disappeared in 1940.
Devil's Island
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The penal colony of Cayenne, commonly known as Devil's Island, was a French penal colony that operated for 100 years, from 1852 to 1952, and officially closed in 1953, in the Salvation Islands of Fren
Dreyfus affair
…communicating French military secrets to the German Embassy in Paris. He was sentenced to life imprisonment and sent overseas to the penal colony on Devil's Island in French Guiana, where he spent the following five years imprisoned in very harsh conditions. In 1896, evidence came to light—primarily through the…
The Dreyfus Tower on the Pointe des Roches, Kourou
A French prison hulk in Toulon harbour, 1850
Sleeping quarters/dormitory in the penal colony
Alfred Dreyfus in his room on Devil's Island, 1898. Stereoscopy sold by F. Hamel, Altona-Hamburg...; collection Fritz Lachmund