5 stories mention Mathieu Dreyfus on DeadlyCurious.
When Émile Zola's remains were transferred to the Panthéon on 4 June 1908, the journalist Louis Grégori shot Alfred Dreyfus twice in the arm at point-blank range. Both bullets struck. Dreyfus survived. Grégori was acquitted by a Parisian jury three months later.
Read the story →While [Alfred Dreyfus was held in solitary confinement on Devil's Island](/articles/dreyfus-devils-island), his wife Lucie wrote to him every week and waited months for replies. Most of her letters were heavily censored by the colonial administration before they reached him. Most of his were censored before they reached her. They corresponded for almost five years across a 7,000-kilometre gap without knowing whether the other was still alive.
Read the story →Georges Picquart was the head of French Army intelligence in 1896 when he realised that the wrong man had been convicted of treason and sent to Devil's Island. His superiors ordered him to keep quiet. He refused, was framed for forgery, and was imprisoned. Twelve years later he became Minister of War.
Read the story →Alfred Dreyfus spent four years and seven months in solitary confinement on a small island off French Guiana. He was the only prisoner. His guards were forbidden to speak to him. He kept a diary and survived.
Read the story →A torn-up scrap of paper from a German embassy wastebasket convicted the wrong man in 1894. France spent the next twelve years arguing about it.
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