Five Years of My Life: 1894-1899

xiv, 310 pp. Gilt titles. Ex-Captain of Artillery in the French Army. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Alfred Dreyfus (French: [al.f??d d??.fys]; 9 October 1859 – 12 July 1935) was a French Jewish artillery officer whose trial and conviction in 1894 on charges of treason became one of the most tense political dramas in modern French history with a wide echo in all Europe. Known today as the Dreyfus affair, the incident eventually ended with Dreyfus's complete exoneration.