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Led to the annexation of Alsace, where Dreyfus was born
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Showed the weakness of the Republic to many who opposed it
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Crippled the influence of the Royalist movement in France
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This was the superior school, where graduates competed with officers from the traditional Saint-Cyr
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On graduation he was assigned to the Thirty-first Artillery Regiment, which was in garrison at Le Mans. Dreyfus was subsequently transferred to a mounted artillery battery attached to the First Cavalry Division (Paris), and promoted to lieutenant in 1885. In 1889, he was made adjutant to the director of the Établissement de Bourges, a government arsenal, and promoted to captain.
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150,000 copies sold in the first year
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Nationalist, royalist figure who wanted the Franco-Prussia war to be avenged. He was planning on a coup d’etat but decided against it
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An anti-Semitic Alsatian who was to discover the "bordeau"
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Linked to a French company's failed building attempt at constructing a Panama Canal. Close to half a billion francs were lost and members of the French government had taken bribes to keep quiet. Regarded as the largest financial scandal of the 20th century
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The only Jewish officer
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Madame Bastian who worked in the German embassy found a torn-up note which contained secrets given by a supposed Mr D.
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La Libre Parole, L'Autorité, Le Journal, and Le Temps described the supposed life of Dreyfus through lies and bad fiction
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Dreyfus’ closed December court- martial served up an array of hearsay evidence and unsubstantiated rumors that characterized him as a gambler and womanizer who frequently traveled to Alsace. His handwriting reportedly matched that of a letter liberated by Bastian from Schwartzkoppen’s trash. A telegram was faked which supposedly proved that Dreyfus was culpable
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