Alfred Dreyfus

Zola had enemies because of his courageous 1898 statement publicly denouncing the wrongful conviction of Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish officer in the French army.

Dave Astor: Life Spans of Literary Giants Dave Astor 2012

The Observer's stance on Suez in 1956 is often regarded as the paper's finest hour, but Beer's efforts to reveal that the French army officer Alfred Dreyfus was the victim of an anti-semitic campaign probably rival that moral apogee.

First Lady of Fleet Street by Eilat Negev and Yehuda Koren – review 2011

Ruth Harris's cultural history of the Dreyfus affair in turn-of-the-20th-century France provided insight not just into the shifting factions and carnival aspect of a public controversy, but also into how Alfred Dreyfus's "usual perplexing impassivity," as Ms. Harris put it, affected events.

Truth in Imagined Things Amy Waldman 2011

But the undercurrent of hatred persisted, culminating in the Dreyfus affair in 1894, with the trial and false conviction of Alfred Dreyfus, a French military officer of Jewish descent, which is often described as one of the most influential events in the modern history of French Jewry.

Jewish people in the French capital live in the shadow of hatred 2011

In the 1890s, he counterfeits the evidence in the infamous French spy scandal that saw the artillery captain Alfred Dreyfus railroaded because he was a Jew.

Finding the Origin of the Vile Sam Sacks 2011

Zola had enemies because of his courageous 1898 statement publicly denouncing the wrongful conviction of Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish officer in the French army.

Dave Astor: Life Spans of Literary Giants Dave Astor 2012

Alfred Dreyfus, the French artillery officer who in 1895 was found guilty of treason and sent to Devil's Island for little more than being Jewish.

Why You Shouldn't Judge A Lawyer by His Clients Michael B. Mukasey 2010

Olbermann drew a comparison, which he admitted was a "stretch," between the slandered Sherrod and Alfred Dreyfus, the French military officer of Jewish descent who was falsely accused of treason in 1894 — only to be exonerated years later.

Beck SLAMS Olbermann: 'He Is Such A Joke' 2010

Nesbit's political stance gave an extra resonance to this as well: The fictional father's circumstances mirrored those of the Dreyfus case in France, and Alfred Dreyfus was finally exonerated the year of publication, 1906.

In These Plays, a Sense of Place is Paramount 2010

Four months after the document's discovery, the convicted Captain Alfred Dreyfus was put through the "ceremony of degradation" in the courtyard of the Ecole Militaire.

Michael Roth: The Arar Affair: Shades of Dreyfus 2010