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Noun: Dreyfus  drey-fus or drI-fus
  1. French army officer of Jewish descent whose false imprisonment for treason in 1894 raised issues of anti-Semitism that dominated French politics until his release in 1906 (1859-1935)
    - Alfred Dreyfus

Type of: army officer

Encyclopedia: Dreyfus, Julia