DEFIANT DREYFUS

DEFIANT DREYFUS

In 1894, Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a brilliant young French artillery officer of unimpeachable integrity, was charged, on the evidence of an intercepted letter to a German official, with selling documents of military value.

He was tried, convicted on trumped-up evidence, stripped of his military honors and rank, and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island, off the coast of French Guiana.

At a formal ceremony, Dreyfus was publicly degraded, his shoulder straps and buttons being cut away and his sword snapped in two. While a frenzied mob clamored for the "traitor's death," Dreyfus stood firm and flung back these clear words to the officers and the crowd: "I am innocent. Some day you shall know the truth. Vive la France."

- p. 435, A Treasury of the World's Great Letters From Alexander the Great to Thomas Mann, Selected and edited by M. Lincoln Schuster, SIMON AND SCHUSTER, Inc., New York (copied from My personal copy I bought many years ago, probably after My return home after My hectic days in Bombay many years ago).

Kishalay Sinha কিশলয় সিনহা किशलय सिन्हा जी [G]

A highly dramatic account of brave and fearless Dreyfus.