Jules-Albert de Dion
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Marquis Jules Félix Philippe Albert de Dion de Wandonne was a French pioneer of the automobile industry. He invented a steam-powered car and used it to win the world's first auto race, but his vehicle
"Automobile". Caricature by Guth published in Vanity Fair in 1899.
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
Jules-Albert de Dion
…outside of their requirements. The roots of both the Tour de France cycle race and L'Auto (L'Équipe), a daily sporting newspaper, can be traced to the Dreyfus affair and de Dion's passionate anti-dreyfusard opinion and actions. Opinions were heated and there were demonstrations by both sides in the Dreyfus affair…
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.