NOUN
- French army officer of Jewish descent whose false imprisonment for treason in 1894 raised issues of anti-Semitism that dominated French politics until his release in 1906 (1859-1935)
How To Use Alfred Dreyfus In A Sentence
- That includes showing that the supporters of Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish officer in the French army framed for leaking secret documents, were not plasterboard saints. Ruth Harris's "Dreyfus: Politics, Emotion, and the Scandal of the Century"