Hubert-Joseph Henry
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Hubert-Joseph Henry was a French lieutenant-colonel in 1897 involved in the Dreyfus affair. Arrested for having forged evidence against Alfred Dreyfus, he was found dead in his prison cell. He was con
Henry at the 10th session of the Zola trial, 1898, by Louis Rémy Sabattier for l'Illustration
Degradation alfred dreyfus
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
Hubert-Joseph Henry
…seemingly implying his guilt he wrote "You know in whose interest I acted." The meaning of this comment has never been explained; it may have referred to Ferdinand-Walsin Esterhazy, who was the actual author of the bordereau document, which had been used to arrest Captain Dreyfus, or perhaps to Lt Colonel Sandherr, another superior…
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