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pronunciation:
[drayfuhs]
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| French Jewish army officer, born in Mulhouse, NE France. An artillery captain on the General Staff, he was falsely charged with delivering defence secrets to the Germans (1894). He was court-martialled and transported to Devil's I, French Guiana. The efforts of his wife and friends to prove him innocent provoked a vigorous response from militarists and anti-Semites, and deeply divided the French intellectual and political world. After the case was tried again (1899), he was found guilty but pardoned, and in 1906 the verdict was reversed. Proof of his innocence came when German military documents were uncovered in 1930. |
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