# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alfred-dreyfus
# Generated: 2026-09-01T00:27:03.365Z

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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Alfred Dreyfus was born on 9 October 1859 and rose through the French military until 1894, when antisemitism made him the ideal scapegoat: arrested, convicted as a German spy, and sent to Devil's Island though authorities knew he was innocent. The real traitor was Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy, but the army chose cover-up over truth. Émile Zola's 1898 manifesto J'Accuse...! forced the scandal into the open, rallying defenders like Clemenceau, Jaurès, and Anatole France. Dreyfus was eventually exonerated and returned to the army, though at reduced rank. Antisemites despised even his rehabilitation; one tried to assassinate him at Zola's 1908 Panthéon ceremony and was acquitted. Dreyfus fought at Verdun and the Aisne in World War I, then retired. He died in Paris on 12 July 1935, buried in Montparnasse, his ordeal a permanent scar on French political memory.