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Auction 73 · Lot 95
(DREYFUS AFFAIR).
- Estimate
- $500–$700
- Hammer price
- Not recorded
Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.
Description
(Newspaper). The Globe. “Dreyfus Pardoned. Welcome News Came This Morning.” South Bethlehem, Penn, September 19th, 1899. * WITH: New York Daily Tribune. “A Traitor’s Punishment. Captain Dreyfus Publicly Degraded in Paris.” Sunday, January 6th, 1895. AND: The New York Herald. “France Vindicates Dreyfus and Gives Him a Higher Rank.” Friday, July 13, 1906.
summary
Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish captain in the French army, was accused of high treason for allegedly spying on behalf of Germany. Before Dreyfus’ innocence could be proven, he was forced out of the Army and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil’s Island in the Guyanas.
Lightly browned. Folio. Sold not subject to return.
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