

On 18 April 1891, the 31-year-old Dreyfus married 20-year-old Lucie Eugénie Hadamard (1870–1945). In 1889, he was made adjutant to the director of the Établissement de Bourges, a government arsenal, and promoted to captain. Dreyfus was subsequently transferred to a mounted artillery battery attached to the First Cavalry Division (Paris), and promoted to lieutenant in 1885. On graduation, he was assigned to the 31st Artillery Regiment, which was in the garrison at Le Mans. From 1880 to 1882, he attended the artillery school at Fontainebleau to receive more specialized training as an artillery officer. In 1880, he graduated and was commissioned as a sub-lieutenant in the French army. Following his 18th birthday in October 1877, he enrolled in the elite École Polytechnique military school in Paris, where he received military training and an education in the sciences. The childhood experience of seeing his family uprooted by the war with Germany prompted Dreyfus to decide on a career in the military. Alfred was 10 years old when the Franco-Prussian War broke out in the summer of 1870, and following the annexation of Alsace-Lorraine by Germany after the war, he and his family moved to Basel, Switzerland, where he attended high school. Raphaël Dreyfus was a prosperous, self-made Jewish textile manufacturer who had started as a peddler. It ultimately ended with Dreyfus' complete exoneration.Įarly life, family, and education īorn in Mulhouse, Alsace in 1859, Dreyfus was the youngest of nine children born to Raphaël and Jeannette Dreyfus (née Libmann). The incident has gone down in history as the Dreyfus affair, the reverberations from which were felt throughout Europe.
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