Three French postcards from the time of the Dreyfus affair. Scarce. One has been sent and is addressed with stamp and message on front. The Dreyfus affair was a political scandal which divided France during the 1890s and early 1900s. It involved the wrongful conviction for treason of a promising young French artillery officer of Jewish faith and ethnicity, Captain Alfred Dreyfus, and the political and judicial scandal that followed until his full rehabilitation. He ended his career as a Lieutenant-Colonel and actively served during the First World War, at the end of which he was raised to the rank of Officer of the Legion of Honor.
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