What is Alfred Dreyfus?
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2024}} [[File:Alfred Dreyfus (1859-1935).jpg|thumb|Alfred Dreyfus (1894)]] '''Alfred Dreyfus''' (9 October 1859 – 12 July 1935) was a [[French people|French]] officer of [[Jewish]] descent.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.dreyfus.culture.fr/en/chronology-html.htm |title=www.dreyfus.culture.fr |access-date=2017-09-06 |archive-date=2015-04-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150413003708/http://www.dreyfus.culture.fr/en/chronology-html.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> He was wrongly accused of [[treason]] against the French military. This scandal was known as the [[Dreyfus affair]]. He was imprisoned on [[Devil's Island]] in [[French Guiana]]. His highest rank was [[lieutenant colonel]]. Dreyfus was born in [[Mulhouse]] and died in [[Paris]]. == References == {{Reflist}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Dreyfus, Alfred}} [[Category:1859 births]] [[Category:1935 deaths]] [[Category:Colonels]] [[Category:French Jews]] [[Category:French military people]] [[Category:French military personnel of World War I]] [[Category:French prisoners]] [[Category:Jewish military people]] [[Category:People from Mulhouse]] {{bio-stub}}