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of Alfred Dreyfus.
     
    Dreyfus, Pierre
    Son of Alfred Dreyfus, born 1891.
     
    Dreyfus, Raphaël
    Father of Alfred Dreyfus.
     
    Drumont, Édouard
    Author of La France juive . Founder of anti-Semitic newspaper La Libre Parole .
     
    Dupuy, Charles
    Prime Minister, May 1894–January 1895.
     
    Esterhazy, Commandant Marie-Charles-Ferdinand Walsin
    Infantry officer, son of a French general of remote Hungarian descent. Acted as second to André Crémieu-Foa in his duel with Édouard Drumont.
     
    Faure, Félix
    President of France, January 1895–February 1899.
     
    Forzinetti, Commandant Ferdinand
    Governor of the Cherche-Midi military prison.
     
    Freycinet, Charles de
    Reforming Minister of War, April 1888–January 1893 and November 1898–May 1899.
     
    Freystaetter, Captain Martin
    Judge at the first court martial.
     
    Galliffet, General le Marquis de
    Minister of War, June 1899–May 1900. Succeeded by General André.
     
    Gambetta, Léon
    Radical politician. Proclaimed a republic after the defeat of Napoleon III at Sedan. Escaped from Paris besieged by the Prussians in 1869 in a hot-air balloon. Anti-clerical.
     
    Gobert, Alfred
    Handwriting expert from the Banque de France. Judged that the handwriting of the bordereau was not that of Alfred Dreyfus.
     
    Gonse, General Charles-Arthur
    Deputy Chief of the General Staff, 1893–1899.
     
    Gribelin, Félix
    Archivist at the Statistical Section. Served as clerk to Commandant du Paty de Clam during his investigations.
     
    Guénée, François
    Former undercover police officer working for the Statistical Section. Controller of the French agent in the Spanish Embassy, the Marquis de Val Carlos.
     
    Guérin, Jules
    Active anti-Semite. Supported by the royalist pretender, the Duc d’Orléans; founded the Ligue Antisémitique in 1897 and the newspaper, L’Antijuif .
     
    Hanotaux, Gabriel
    Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1894. Retired from politics after Fashoda crisis in 1898. Friend of Dr Adrien Proust, father of Marcel.
     
    Henry, Commandant Hubert Joseph
    Third-in-command at the Statistical Section, the only officer who had risen from the ranks.
     
    Jaurès, Jean
    Leader of the Socialist Party.
     
    Jouaust, Colonel Albert
    Presiding judge at the second court martial.
     
    Lac de Fugères, Père Stanislas du
    French Jesuit, Rector of the École Sainte-Geneviève on the rue des Postes between 1872 and 1881.
     
    Lauth, Captain Jules
    Officer serving in the Statistical Section. Protestant from Alsace.
     
    Lazare, Bernard
    Jewish journalist recruited by Mathieu Dreyfus to promote the case of his brother Alfred. Author of L’Antisémitisme, son histoire et ses causes ( Anti-Semitism: Its History and Causes ).
     
    Leblois, Louis
    Lawyer. Friend of Georges Picquart from their schooldays in Alsace.
     
    Lebrun-Renault, Captain Charles-Gustave
    Officer in charge of Alfred Dreyfus prior to his degradation who later claimed that he had confessed.
     
    Lépine, Commissaire Louis
    Prefect of the Paris Police.
     
    Loubet, Émile
    President of France, February 1899–February 1906.
     
    Matton, Captain Pierre
    Italian specialist in the Statistical Section. Played a minor role in the Panizzardi telegram.
     
    Maurel, Colonel E.
    Presiding judge at the first court martial.
     
    Maurras, Charles
    Nationalist writer and journalist.
     
    Mayer, Captain Armand
    Jewish officer killed by the Marquis de Morès in a duel.
     
    Mercier, General Auguste
    Minister of War, December 1893–January 1895.
     
    Merle, Commandant Émile
    Judge at second court martial.
     
    Meyer, Arthur
    Jewish convert to Catholicism; editor of Le Gaulois .
     
    Monnier, Pauline
    Née Romazzotti. Wife of a civil servant in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, mistress of Colonel Georges Picquart.
     
    Morès, Marquis Antoine de
    Co-founder with Jules Guérin of the Ligue Antisémitique. Killed the Jewish Captain Armand Mayer in a duel in 1894.
     
    Müller, Major
    Chief of German military intelligence, the