Dreyfus

Alfred, a French military officer; born in Alsace in 1859. He entered the Polytechnic Schoo! in Paris in 1878 and four years later was made a lieutenant of artillery. In 1889 he became a captain. He was arrested in 1894 charged with selling military secrets to Germany and wn He was convicted and on Jan. 5, 1895, publicly degraded from his rank in the presence of 5,000 troops. His sentence included life imprisonment on the Isle du Diable, off the coast of French Guiana, where he was rigidly confined till 1899, when the French Senate voted for revision of the Dreyfus case. He was accordingly brought back to France, re-tried by court-martial and notwithstanding the flagrant duplicity of his opponents, was again convicted, the Government, however, pardoning him. He published “ Five Years of My Life” (1901), und after agitation for a revision of his case, was completely vindicated and re-entered the army as major, July 12, 1906.