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#Alfred dreyfus biography update#

We will update Alfred Dreyfus's Height, weight, Body Measurements, Eye Color, Hair Color, Shoe & Dress size soon as possible. Alfred Dreyfus Height, Weight & MeasurementsĪt 76 years old, Alfred Dreyfus height not available right now. He is a member of famous Actor with the age 76 years old group. We recommend you to check the complete list of Famous People born on 9 September. He is remembered as a symbol of justice and the fight against anti-Semitism. He was reinstated in the army with the rank of major and was awarded the Legion of Honor.ĭreyfus died in Paris on 12 July 1935 at the age of 75. After a lengthy campaign by his family and supporters, he was exonerated in 1906. He was sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island, a penal colony off the coast of French Guiana.ĭreyfus's case became a cause célèbre and was the subject of intense public debate in France. He was arrested, court-martialed, and convicted of treason in a trial that was widely seen as a miscarriage of justice. In 1894, Dreyfus was accused of passing military secrets to the German embassy in Paris. He was commissioned as a sub-lieutenant in the French army in 1885 and was promoted to lieutenant in 1888. His father was a successful textile manufacturer and a leader of the local Jewish community.ĭreyfus was educated at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand in Paris and graduated from the École Polytechnique in 1882. He was the youngest of nine children born to Raphaël and Jeannette Dreyfus.

After a lengthy campaign by his family and supporters, he was exonerated in 1906.ĭreyfus was born in Mulhouse, Alsace, France, on 9 September 1859. He was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island, a penal colony off the coast of French Guiana. Alfred Dreyfus was a French artillery officer of Jewish background who was falsely accused of treason in 1894.