sentences:  On 17 January 1895, he was transferred to the prison on Île de Ré where he was held for over a month.He had the right to see his wife twice a week in a long room, each of them at one end, with the director of the prison in the middle.At the last minute, at the initiative of General Mercier, a law was passed on 9 February 1895, restoring the Îles du Salut in French Guiana, as a place of fortified deportation so that Dreyfus was not sent to Ducos, New Caledonia.