Understanding the Texas Constitution

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Alfred Dreyfus, Paul Touvier, Nicolas Fouquet, Zacarias Moussaoui, Charles Sobhraj, Marie Lafarge, Henri Charrière, Michel Fourniret, Francis Heaulme, Jean-Claude Romand, Guy Georges, Théodule Meunier, Henry Coston, Antoine François Desrues. Excerpt: Alfred Dreyfus Alfred Dreyfus (French pronunciation: ; 9 October 1859 12 July 1935) was a French artillery officer of Jewish background whose trial and conviction in 1894 on charges of treason became one of the most tense political dramas in modern French and European history. It is still known today as the Dreyfus Affair . Early life Born in Mulhouse ( Mülhausen ) in Alsace , Dreyfus was the youngest of seven children born to Raphael and Jeannette Dreyfus, a prosperous, self-made, Jewish textile manufacturer who had started as a peddler . The family moved to Paris from Alsace after the Franco-Prussian War , when in 1871 Alsace-Lorraine was annexed by the German Empire . The Dreyfus family had long been established in the area that traditionally had been German -speaking, and Raphael spoke Yiddish and conducted business affairs in the German language. The first language of most of Alfred's elder brothers and sisters was German or one of the Alsatian dialects. Alfred and his brother were the only children to receive a fully French education. In 1880 Dreyfus graduated as a sub-lieutenant from the elite École Polytechnique military school in Paris , where he received military training and an education in the sciences. His entry into the military was influenced by his experience of seeing Prussian troops enter his hometown in 1871 when he was eleven years old. From 1880 to 1882 he attended the artillery school at Fontainebleau to receive more specialized training as an artillery officer. On graduation he was attached to the first divis...