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Dreyfus   /drˈaɪfəs/  /drˈeɪfəs/   Listen
Dreyfus

noun
1.
French army officer of Jewish descent whose false imprisonment for treason in 1894 raised issues of anti-Semitism that dominated French politics until his release in 1906 (1859-1935).  Synonym: Alfred Dreyfus.






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"Dreyfus" Quotes from Famous Books



... prosper. Anti-Semitism grew beyond his control. The Dreyfus affair broke, and set the very foundations of France quivering. What the Marquis's part in it was, is obscure, but it was said ...
— Roosevelt in the Bad Lands • Hermann Hagedorn

... about the Empire. But still I remarked his old indifference to criticism. Success had improved him in every way: this seems a common thing with Britishers. In September last I knocked up against him at Rennes during the Dreyfus trial. As I expected, Steevens kept cool: he could always see the other side of a question. We discussed the impending war, and he was eagerly looking forward to going with the troops. I dare not tell his views on the political question of the war. They would surprise most of his ...
— From Capetown to Ladysmith - An Unfinished Record of the South African War • G. W. Steevens

... particulars. Whether the storyteller begins by saying, "Now I'll tell you just how they happened to be there;" or the traveler writes, "From the Place de la Concorde one has about him magnificent views," or "There were many unfortunate circumstances about the Dreyfus affair;" in each case he will follow the general statement of the opening sentence with sentences going ...
— English: Composition and Literature • W. F. (William Franklin) Webster

... Radical-Socialists. The Moderate Republicans, to whom had been given recently the name of Progressives, were reduced to 200; while the Right retained but 100. The Socialists alone polled nearly twenty per cent of the total popular vote. The remarkable agitation by which the Dreyfus affair was attended had the effect of consolidating further the parties of the Left, and the bloc which resulted not only has subsisted steadily from that day to the present but has controlled very largely the policies of the government. The first conspicuous leader ...
— The Governments of Europe • Frederic Austin Ogg



Words linked to "Dreyfus" :   Alfred Dreyfus, army officer



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