The Dreyfus Affair, in which Alfred Dreyfus was convicted of passing French military secrets to Germany, sentenced to Devil's Island, and later found innocent, was powered by many passions of the French military. The General Staff was aristocratic. Catholic, and usually graduates of St. Cyr. Dreyfus was an Alsatian Jew who went to the Wrong School: L'Ecole Polytechnique -- which nowadays, of course, is the Right School. By 1906, the matter had been settled, and Dreyfus restored to the Army with the rank of Major. By the time he retired at the end of the First World War, he was a Lieutenant Colonel who had taken part in Verdun and the Second Aisne.
Here's a major movie covering the affair, an enormous two reels. Unfortunately, it's made for people who know the details of the Affair intimately -- all of France --and the modern viewer may be confused by the welter of people identified only by their uniforms, people who start to pack their bags and then cut their throats,
If the subject interests you, might I suggest a book? Or if you want a movie version, THE LIFE OF EMILE ZOLA?
Here's a major movie covering the affair, an enormous two reels. Unfortunately, it's made for people who know the details of the Affair intimately -- all of France --and the modern viewer may be confused by the welter of people identified only by their uniforms, people who start to pack their bags and then cut their throats,
If the subject interests you, might I suggest a book? Or if you want a movie version, THE LIFE OF EMILE ZOLA?
