Dreyfus

[ drey-fuh s, drahy-; French drey-fys ]

/ ˈdreɪ fəs, ˈdraɪ-; French dreɪˈfüs /

noun

Al·fred

[al-frid; French al-fred] /ˈæl frɪd; French alˈfrɛd/,1859–1935, French army officer of Jewish descent: convicted of treason 1894, 1899; acquitted 1906.

Example sentences from the Web for dreyfus

In fact, Dreyfus mentions that at one point during their school days Halévy refused to speak to Proust for a month.

Marcel Proust’s First Poem, ‘Pederasty,’ Shows Him Struggling With Homosexuality |Marcel Proust |March 25, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
Now dying of cancer, the Dreyfus Affair jolts him self-rediscovery.

David's Bookclub: The Guermantes Way |David Frum |September 3, 2012 |DAILY BEAST
The Strauss-Kahn affair is obviously unrelated to the Dreyfus affair.

5 Lessons of the DSK Affair |Bernard-Henri Lévy |July 2, 2011 |DAILY BEAST
It is a worldview that takes its name from the French nationalist writer, contemporary of the Dreyfus Affair, Maurice Barrès.

5 Lessons of the DSK Affair |Bernard-Henri Lévy |July 2, 2011 |DAILY BEAST

Socialism, also, found in the Dreyfus affair, a pretext for the solidification of its forces.

The War Upon Religion |Rev. Francis A. Cunningham
My dear Sister,—You ask me to tell you about the "Dreyfus affair."

The Sunny Side of Diplomatic Life, 1875-1912 |Lillie DeHegermann-Lindencrone
The innocence of Dreyfus would be a crime, said a famous anti-Dreyfusard.

The Fruits of Victory |Norman Angell
In it he led the campaign for the revision of the Dreyfus affair, and for the separation of Church and State.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 4 |Various
It is an exact repetition of the method employed by the Anti-Dreyfusard papers in the Dreyfus case.

Boer Politics |Yves Guyot

British Dictionary definitions for dreyfus

Dreyfus

/ (ˈdreɪfəs, French drɛfys) /

noun

Alfred (alfrɛd). 1859–1935, French army officer, a Jew whose false imprisonment for treason (1894) raised issues of anti-semitism and militarism that dominated French politics until his release (1906)

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