Dreyfus

[ drey-fuh s, drahy-; French drey-fys ]

/ ˈdreɪ fəs, ˈdraɪ-; French dreɪˈfüs /

noun

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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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 Homosexuality|Marcel Proust|March 25, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Now dying of cancer, the Dreyfus Affair jolts him self-rediscovery.
David's Bookclub: The Guermantes Way|David Frum|September 3, 2012|DAILY BEAST
The Strauss-Kahn affair is obviously unrelated to the Dreyfus affair.
5 Lessons of the DSK Affair|Bernard-Henri Lévy|July 2, 2011|DAILY BEAST
It is a worldview that takes its name from the French nationalist writer, contemporary of the Dreyfus Affair, Maurice Barrès.
5 Lessons of the DSK Affair|Bernard-Henri Lévy|July 2, 2011|DAILY BEAST

Socialism, also, found in the Dreyfus affair, a pretext for the solidification of its forces.
The War Upon Religion|Rev. Francis A. Cunningham
My dear Sister,—You ask me to tell you about the "Dreyfus affair."
The Sunny Side of Diplomatic Life, 1875-1912|Lillie DeHegermann-Lindencrone
The innocence of Dreyfus would be a crime, said a famous anti-Dreyfusard.
The Fruits of Victory|Norman Angell
In it he led the campaign for the revision of the Dreyfus affair, and for the separation of Church and State.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 4|Various
It is an exact repetition of the method employed by the Anti-Dreyfusard papers in the Dreyfus case.
Boer Politics|Yves Guyot

British Dictionary definitions for dreyfus

Dreyfus

/ (ˈdreɪfəs, French drɛfys) /

noun

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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