Gerschel,Alfred Dreyfus in uniform
Paris, C 1890
From the grandchildren of Captain Dreyfus
© Musee d'art et d'histoire du Judaisme





In 1894, Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish officer in the French army, was wrongfully arrested and jailed for treason. His trial and the political scandal that ensued left France bitterly divided for decades, with liberal intellectuals on one side, and the clergy and military on the other. This exhibition revisits the trial and its aftermath in a completely new way: through Dreyfus' personal effects.

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