Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy
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Charles Marie Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy was an officer in the French Army from 1870 to 1898. He gained notoriety as a spy for the German Empire and the actual perpetrator of the act of treason of whi
Esterhazy as caricatured by Jean Baptiste Guth in Vanity Fair, May 1898
Headstone: buried under the alias of Count de Voilemont
The bordereau (memorandum) which sparked the Dreyfus affair
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Georges Picquart
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Marie-Georges Picquart was a French Army officer and Minister of War. He is best known for his role in the Dreyfus affair, in which he played a key role in uncovering the real culprit.
Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy
…of degradation), and then shipped to the penal colony of Devil's Island (L'île du Diable) off the coast of French Guiana. In 1896, Lieutenant-Colonel Georges Picquart, the then-new head of the Intelligence Service, uncovered a letter sent by Maximilian von Schwartzkoppen (at the time German military attache to Paris…
Georges Picquart in the uniform of General of Division
Lieutenant Colonel Georges Picquart as commander of the 4th Tunisian Tirailleurs