What was the rank of the French officer of Alsatian origin and of Jewish faith Alfred Dreyfus?
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What was the rank of the French officer of Alsatian origin and of Jewish faith Alfred Dreyfus?
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Captain Alfred Dreyfus is a French officer of Alsatian origin and of Jewish faith. In 1894, he was the victim of a judicial machination which was at the origin of a major political crisis at the beginning of the Third Republic, the Dreyfus affair (1894-1906).