Dreyfus
[drey-fuh s, drahy-; French drey-fys]
- Al·fred [al-frid; French al-fred] /ˈæl frɪd; French alˈfrɛd/, 1859–1935, French army officer of Jewish descent: convicted of treason 1894, 1899; acquitted 1906.
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Contemporary Examples
In fact, Dreyfus mentions that at one point during their school days Halévy refused to speak to Proust for a month.
Marcel Proust’s First Poem, ‘Pederasty,’ Shows Him Struggling With HomosexualityMarcel Proust
March 25, 2013
Now dying of cancer, the Dreyfus Affair jolts him self-rediscovery.
The Strauss-Kahn affair is obviously unrelated to the Dreyfus affair.
It is a worldview that takes its name from the French nationalist writer, contemporary of the Dreyfus Affair, Maurice Barrès.
Historical Examples
But that I told him would be an insult to Dreyfus, who was insulted enough.
The Paliser caseEdgar Saltus
Now Dreyfus went on like a man who knew he was a wronged man.
The Wisdom of Father BrownG. K. Chesterton
I don't mean to say that he saw himself as a kind of Dreyfus.
The Good SoldierFord Madox Ford
My case is better than Dreyfus' and Sacco-Vanzetti's combined.
RevengeArthur Porges
That was almost as bad as the Dreyfus case as far as it went.
Peck's Uncle Ike and The Red Headed BoyGeorge W. Peck
Dreyfus
- Alfred (alfrɛd). 1859–1935, French army officer, a Jew whose false imprisonment for treason (1894) raised issues of anti-semitism and militarism that dominated French politics until his release (1906)
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