Dreyfus
ALFRED, a French mili tary officer; born in Alsace in 1859. Ha DREYSE entered the Polytechnic School in Paris in 1878 and four years later was made a lieutenant of artillery. In 1889 he became a captain. He was arrested in 1894 charged with selling military secrets to Germany and Italy. He was convicted and on Jan. 5, 1895, publicly degraded from his rank in the presence of 5,000 troops. His sentence included life imprisonment on the Isle du Diable, off the coast of French Guiana, where he was rigidly confined till 1899 when the French Senate voted for revision of the Dreyfus ALFRED DREYFUS 14 case. He was accordingly brought back to France, retried by court-martial and again convicted. The French Government granted him a pardon almost immediately. He published "Five Years of My Life" (1901). Dreyfus was restored to the army, and served during the World War.