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'''Alfred Dreyfus''' (1859-1935) was a [[French]] army officer falsely accused of spying in the late 1800s. The charges, conviction and initial refusal by the government to admit its error had overtones of [[Anti-Semitism]], as Dreyfus was [[Jewish]].<ref>http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/anti-semitism/Dreyfus.html</ref> In 1895, he was sentenced to spend life imprisoned on [[Devil's Island]] off the coast of French Guiana, but he was pardoned four years later. The incident has become known in history as the '''Dreyfus Affair'''.
'''Alfred Dreyfus''' (1859-1935) was a [[French]] army officer falsely accused of spying in the late 1800s. The charges, conviction and initial refusal by the government to admit its error had overtones of [[Anti-Semitism]], as Dreyfus was [[Jewish]].<ref>http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/anti-semitism/Dreyfus.html</ref> In 1895, he was sentenced to spend life imprisoned on [[Devil's Island]] off the coast of French Guiana.
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The '''Dreyfuss Affair''' became a central issue in French politics, with critics like [[Émile Zola]] --who cired "[[J'accuse]]"--insisting it was a miscarriage of justice brought by a conspiracy of Catholic army officers. Dreyfuss was proven innocent and released in 1899.
==Further reading==
* Bredin, Jean-Denis. ''The Affair: The Case of Alfred Dreyfus.'' (1986). 551 pp.
* Griffiths, Richard. ''The Use of Abuse: The Polemics of the Dreyfus Affair and Its Aftermath.'' (1991). 207 pp.
* Kleeblatt, Norman L., ed. ''The Dreyfus Affair: Art, Truth, and Justice.'' (1987). 315 pp.
* Zola, Emile. ''The Dreyfus Affair: "J'Accuse" and Other Writings.'' (1996). 202 pp.
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