'''Alfred Dreyfus''' (1859-1935) was a [[French]] army officer falsely accused of spying in the late 1800s. The charges, conviction and initial refusal by the government to admit its error had overtones of [[antiAnti-Semitism]], as Dreyfus was [[Jewish]].<ref>http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/anti-semitism/Dreyfus.html</ref> In 1895, he was sentenced to spend life imprisoned on [[Devil's Island]] off the coast of French Guiana, but he was pardoned four years later. The incident has become known in history as The the '''Dreyfus Affair'''.
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