The French Jewish artillery captain whose false 1894 conviction for espionage against the Third Republic ignited a massive, multi-year political crisis.

The grand Third Republic political and social scandal divided between "revisionist" Dreyfusards and nationalist anti-Dreyfusards.

The unsigned note retrieved from a German military attaché's wastebasket detailing French artillery secrets, which sparked the treason trial.

Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy

The debt-ridden French major who actually committed the acts of espionage, writing the bordereau sold to the German military.

The head of French military counter-intelligence who discovered Esterhazy's guilt via the "petit bleu" note but was reassigned to silence him.

The landmark 1898 open letter penned by Émile Zola in L'Aurore that systematically exposed the military's cover-up and anti-Semitic conspiracy.

The brutal, isolated penal colony off the coast of French Guiana where Alfred Dreyfus was kept in solitary confinement for over four years.

Max von Schwartzkoppen

The German military attaché in Paris whose wastebasket yielded the treasonous bordereau recovered by French intelligence housekeepers.

Alessandro Panizzardi

The Italian military attaché whose intimate, encrypted correspondences with Schwartzkoppen were intercepted and manipulated by French prosecutors.

The virulent anti-Semitic journalist whose radical newspaper La Libre Parole aggressively stoked anti-Dreyfusard public outrage.

The site of the humiliating January 1895 degradation ceremony where Dreyfus's uniform insignia were stripped and his sword was broken.

The French intelligence officer who committed suicide in prison after being exposed for fabricating the "Henry Forgery" to cement Dreyfus's guilt.

The pioneer of anthropometry who, despite lacking graphology expertise, pseudoscientifically alleged Dreyfus committed "autoforgery."

"They spoke about it..."

The caption of Caran d'Ache's famous 1898 Le Figaro cartoon depicting a violent family dinner brawl sparked by mentioning the Affair.

The President of France who issued a formal pardon to Dreyfus in 1899 following a highly controversial second court-martial in Rennes.

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Alfred Dreyfus

Alfred Dreyfus Notes

Question	Answer
Alfred Dreyfus	The French Jewish artillery captain whose false 1894 conviction for espionage against the Third Republic ignited a massive, multi-year political crisis.
Dreyfus Affair	The grand Third Republic political and social scandal divided between "revisionist" Dreyfusards and nationalist anti-Dreyfusards.
The Bordereau	The unsigned note retrieved from a German military attaché's wastebasket detailing French artillery secrets, which sparked the treason trial.
Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy	The debt-ridden French major who actually committed the acts of espionage, writing the bordereau sold to the German military.
Georges Picquart	The head of French military counter-intelligence who discovered Esterhazy's guilt via the "petit bleu" note but was reassigned to silence him.
J'Accuse...!	The landmark 1898 open letter penned by Émile Zola in L'Aurore that systematically exposed the military's cover-up and anti-Semitic conspiracy.
Devil's Island	The brutal, isolated penal colony off the coast of French Guiana where Alfred Dreyfus was kept in solitary confinement for over four years.
Max von Schwartzkoppen	The German military attaché in Paris whose wastebasket yielded the treasonous bordereau recovered by French intelligence housekeepers.
Alessandro Panizzardi	The Italian military attaché whose intimate, encrypted correspondences with Schwartzkoppen were intercepted and manipulated by French prosecutors.
Édouard Drumont	The virulent anti-Semitic journalist whose radical newspaper La Libre Parole aggressively stoked anti-Dreyfusard public outrage.
École Militaire	The site of the humiliating January 1895 degradation ceremony where Dreyfus's uniform insignia were stripped and his sword was broken.
Hubert-Joseph Henry	The French intelligence officer who committed suicide in prison after being exposed for fabricating the "Henry Forgery" to cement Dreyfus's guilt.
Alphonse Bertillon	The pioneer of anthropometry who, despite lacking graphology expertise, pseudoscientifically alleged Dreyfus committed "autoforgery."
"They spoke about it..."	The caption of Caran d'Ache's famous 1898 Le Figaro cartoon depicting a violent family dinner brawl sparked by mentioning the Affair.
Émile Loubet	The President of France who issued a formal pardon to Dreyfus in 1899 following a highly controversial second court-martial in Rennes.

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