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.
Georges Picquart in the uniform of General of Division
Lieutenant Colonel Georges Picquart as commander of the 4th Tunisian Tirailleurs
Degradation alfred dreyfus
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
Georges Picquart
…Marie-Georges Picquart (6 September 1854 – 19 January 1914) 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. Picquart was born in Strasbourg. He began his military career in 1872, graduating from…
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.