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Name: Alfred Dreyfus
Birth Date: October 9, 1859
Death Date: July 11, 1935
Place of Birth: Mulhouse, France
Nationality: French
Gender: Male
Occupations: army officer

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Biography of Alfred Dreyfus
1,089 words, approx. 4 pages
The French army officer Alfred Dreyfus (1859-1935) was unjustly convicted of treason. The effort, eventually successful, to clear his name divided French society and had important political repercussions. Alfred Dreyfus was born at Mulhouse on Oct. 9,...


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Alfred Dreyfus (9 October, 1859 – 12 July, 1935) was a French artillery officer of Jewish background whose trial and conviction in 1894 on charges of treason became one of the most sensational political dramas in modern French and European...


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The Dreyfus affair.(Alfred Dreyfus)
01/01/2002: 3,707 words, approx. 12 pages
In France, during the last decades of the 19th century, antagonisms that had been smoldering for some time below the surface suddenly erupted most violently. A series of events divided the country into warring camps, pitching republicans against monarchists, clericalists against secularists, militarists against...
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The Economist (US)
Dreyfus and Touvier. (Alfred Dreyfus, Paul Touvier)(Arts, Books and Sport)
05/07/1994: 1,082 words, approx. 4 pages
Jewish captain Alfred Dreyfus was deported from France in 1894, 100 years before a French court sentenced Paul Touvier to life imprisonment for the execution of seven Jews during World War II. It was also 50 years before the grand-daughter of Dreyfus would die...
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AP News
Today in History - Dec. 22
12/22/2006: 545 words, approx. 2 pages
Today is Friday, Dec. 22, the 356th day of 2006. There are nine days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Dec. 22, 1944, during the World War II Battle of the Bulge, U.S. Brigadier General Anthony C. McAuliffe rejected the Germans' demand that the...
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Today in History-Jan 5
12/31/2007: 548 words, approx. 2 pages
Today is Saturday, Jan. 5, the fifth day of 2008. There are 361 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Jan. 5, 1896, an Austrian newspaper reported the discovery by German physicist Wilhelm Roentgen of a type of radiation that came to be known...
 


 

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