Autograph letter, signed “A Dreyfus” , to Commandant Martin Freystaetter, 15 mai 1902

by Alfred Dreyfus

$2,000 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

2 pages. 12mo. Fine. Docketed in pencil with recipient’s name. Item #375094 Alfred Dreyfus, French army officer convicted of treason and imprisoned in 1895. He asserted his innocence and his case was taken up, famously, by Zola, and further investigation demonstrated that the principal document was in fact a forgery. A new trial was held in 1899, and Dreyfus was exonerated in 1906. The Affaire Dreyfus brought the question of antisemitism to the

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