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  • Lettres d'un Innocent: The Letters of Captain Dreyfus to His Wife

    "Lettres d'un Innocent: The Letters of Captain Dreyfus to His Wife" is a poignant collection of letters penned by Alfred Dreyfus, a French army officer wrongfully convicted of treason. These letters, addressed to his beloved wife Lucie, reveal the emotional turmoil and profound sense of injustice he experienced during his imprisonment. Dreyfus's eloquent words capture the essence of love, despair, ... Read more

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  • Five Years of My Life

    1894-1899

    The Dreyfus affair was a political scandal that shook France around 1900. To this day, this affair is an example of miscarriage of justice and anti-Semitism.Alfred Dreyfus was a French army captain of Jewish descent who was accused of handing over secret documents to the German Embassy in Paris. A handwritten note and a report identifying Dreyfus as the author were the only evidence.Dreyfus, who ... Read more

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    Five Years Of My Life 1894-1899 (Unabridged)

    Narrated by Craig Harrison ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 10 min

    Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish captain in the French Army was court martialed in 1894 on a trumped up charge of treason and condemned to life imprisonment on Devil’s island, a penal colony off French Guiana. His prison diary, published as Five Years of My Life in 1901 is a heroic tale of survival against daunting odds: isolation, deprivation, torture . . Alfred left behind in Paris his wife Lucie, who, ... Read more

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