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Dreyfus [drey-fuh s, drahy-; French drey-fys] Examples 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.
Examples from the Web for dreyfus Contemporary Examples of 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
Now dying of cancer, the Dreyfus Affair jolts him self-rediscovery.
David’s Bookclub: The Guermantes Way
David Frum
September 3, 2012
The Strauss-Kahn affair is obviously unrelated to the Dreyfus affair.
Bernard-Henri Lévy
July 2, 2011
It is a worldview that takes its name from the French nationalist writer, contemporary of the Dreyfus Affair, Maurice Barrès.
Bernard-Henri Lévy
July 2, 2011
Historical Examples of dreyfus
But that I told him would be an insult to Dreyfus, who was insulted enough.
Edgar Saltus
Now Dreyfus went on like a man who knew he was a wronged man.
G. K. Chesterton
I don’t mean to say that he saw himself as a kind of Dreyfus.
Ford Madox Ford
My case is better than Dreyfus’ and Sacco-Vanzetti’s combined.
Arthur Porges
That was almost as bad as the Dreyfus case as far as it went.
Peck’s Uncle Ike and The Red Headed Boy
George W. Peck
British Dictionary definitions for dreyfus Dreyfus 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)