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Dreyfus Affair
Dreyfus Affair , the controversy that occurred with the treason conviction (1894) of Capt. Alfred Dreyfus (1859-1935), a French general staff officer. The Case The case arose when a French spy in the German embassy discovered a handwritten bordereau [schedule], received by Major Max von ... Read more
Ruth Gordon
Ruth Gordon 1896-1985, American actress and playwright, b. Wollaston, Mass. From her debut as Nibs in Peter Pan (1915), Gordon's career encompassed broad stage and film experience. Among the plays she wrote are Over Twenty-One, Years Ago, and The Leading Lady. She and her husband, the playwri... Read more
Concordat of 1801
Concordat of 1801 agreement between Napoleon Bonaparte and Pope Pius VII that reestablished the Roman Catholic Church in France. Napoleon took the initiative in negotiating this agreement; he recognized that reconciliation with the church was politic. It would help consolidate his position, end the... Read more
Concordat of 1801
Concordat of 1801 agreement between Napoleon Bonaparte and Pope Pius VII that reestablished the Roman Catholic Church in France. Napoleon took the initiative in negotiating this agreement; he recognized that reconciliation with the church was politic. It would help consolidate his position, end the... Read more
Theodor Herzl
Theodor Herzl , 1860-1904, Hungarian Jew, founder of modern Zionism . Sent to Paris as a correspondent for the Vienna Neue Frei Presse, he reported on the Dreyfus affair. Appalled by the vicious anti-Semitism he observed, he decided that Jewish assimilation in Europe was impossible and that the o... Read more
Edmund Husserl
Edmund Husserl , 1859-1938, German philosopher, founder of the phenomenological movement (see phenomenology ). He was professor at Göttingen and Freiburg and was greatly influenced by Franz Brentano. His philosophy is a descriptive study of consciousness for the purpose of discovering the stru... Read more
Roger Martin du Gard
Roger Martin du Gard , 1881-1958, French novelist. Long associated with the Nouvelle Revue française, he first gained recognition with Jean Barois (1913), a novel of France during the Dreyfus Affair . His fame, however, rests chiefly on his eight-part novel cycle The World of the Thibau... Read more
Georges Clemenceau
Georges Clemenceau , 1841-1929, French political figure, twice premier (1906-9, 1917-20), called "the Tiger." He was trained as a doctor, but his republicanism brought him into conflict with the government of Napoleon III, and he went to the United States, where he spent several years as a journ... Read more
Léon Blum
Léon Blum , 1872-1950, French Socialist leader and writer. Well established in literary circles, he entered politics during the Dreyfus Affair and rose to party leadership. In 1936 he brought about the coalition of Radical Socialists, Socialists, and Communists in the Popular Front, which w... Read more
Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault 1926-84, French philosopher and historian. He was professor at the Collège de France (1970-84). He is renowned for historical studies that reveal the sometimes morally disturbing power relations inherent in social practices. Influenced by Nietzsche , he called these studies,... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "Dreyfus"

Alfred Dreyfus
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Alfred Dreyfus The French army officer Alfred Dreyfus (1859-1935) was unjustly convicted of treason. The effort...society and had important political repercussions. Alfred Dreyfus was born at Mulhouse on Oct. 9, 1859, into a Jewish textile...
Dreyfus Affair
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Dreyfus Affair , the controversy that occurred...treason conviction (1894) of Capt. Alfred Dreyfus (1859-1935), a French general staff...ferret out the traitor. Suspicion fell on Dreyfus, a wealthy Alsatian Jew, while the press...
Julien Benda
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...provoked by that greatest of political affairs, the Dreyfus case. The Dreyfus case brought the term "intellectual" into currency...affected Benda profoundly. He contributed to the pro-Dreyfus Revue blanche (frequented by Lucien Herr, L...
Benacerraf, Baruj
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...married his wife, the former Annette Dreyfus. She too had been raised in France...She was a descendant of both Alfred Dreyfus, the French Jewish military officer whose wrongful arrest precipitated the "Dreyfus affair" scandal of the 1890s, and of...
Zola, Émile Edouard Charles Antoine
Book article from: World Encyclopedia ...Accuse”, which denounced the punishment of Alfred Dreyfus. This led to a brief exile in England and, after the vindication of Dreyfus, a hero's return. See also Dreyfus Affair http://library.adelaide.edu.au
Joseph Reinach
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...seat in 1898 as a result of his pro-Dreyfus campaign (which was the more courageous because Reinach himself was a Jew) in the Dreyfus Affair . He was again a deputy from 1906...He also wrote Histoire de l'affaire Dreyfus (7 vol., 1901-11).
Georges Picquart
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...the memorandum that had been used to convict Captain Dreyfus (see Dreyfus Affair ) had probably been the work of Ferdinand Walsin...service and arrested for forgery. The exoneration of Dreyfus in 1906 also served to absolve Picquart, who was...
Georges Sorel
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...considered to be objective. But he was quickly caught up in the Dreyfus Affair and with the movement which sought to put right the...committed in imprisoning a Jewish army officer, Capt. Alfred Dreyfus, as a spy. This led him to proceed to a revision of Marxism...
Émile François Loubet
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...In 1899 he succeeded Félix Faure as president of the republic. Favoring revision in the Dreyfus Affair , Loubet pardoned Alfred Dreyfus in 1899; in foreign affairs his reception of King Edward VII of Great Britain symbolized the growing...
Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...French military secrets to the Germans. When treason became evident in 1894, the guilt was pinned on Captain Dreyfus (see Dreyfus Affair ). The suspicions of Col. Georges Picquart helped to bring about a court-martial for Esterhazy in 1898...

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Dreyfus Affair
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History Dreyfus Affair (France) A crisis that shook French...foundations. In December 1894 Captain Alfred Dreyfus (b. 1859, d. 1935), a Jewish officer...established that the culprit was not Dreyfus, but one Commandant Esterházy...
Dreyfus case
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions Dreyfus case. Alfred Dreyfus (1859–1935) was a Jewish officer in the French army...retrial, the military court refused to admit the error, and found Dreyfus guilty, but with extenuating circumstances. He was sentenced to...
Dreyfus, Alfred
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History Dreyfus, Alfred (1859–1935) French army officer, of Jewish descent. In 1894 he was...letter, J'accuse , published in 1898, accused the judges at the trial of having convicted Dreyfus at the behest of the War Office.
Lom, Herbert
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Edwards) (as Chief Inspector Charles Dreyfus) 1965 Return from the Ashes (Thompson...Return of the Pink Panther (Edwards) (as Dreyfus); And Then There Were None (Ten Little...Panther Strikes Again (Edwards) (as Dreyfus) 1977 Charleston (Fondato) (as Inspector...
Homolka, Oscar
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...im Erziehungshaus (Asagaroff) 1930 Hokuspokus (Der Prozess der Kitty Kellermann ; Hocuspocus ) (Ucicky); Dreyfus (The Dreyfus Case ) (Oswald) (as Esterhazy) 1931 1914, die letzten Tage vor dem Weltbrand (Oswald); Der Wege nach Rio...
Kortner, Fritz
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Righelle); Das Schiff der verlorenen Menschen (Tourneur); Die Frau im Talar (Trotz); Somnambul (Trotz) 1930 Dreyfus (The Dreyfus Case ) (Oswald) (title role); Menschen in Käfig (Love Storm ) (Dupont); Der Andere (Wiene...
Aimée, Anouk
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers AIMÉE, Anouk Nationality: French. Born: Françoise Sorya Dreyfus in Paris, 27 April 1932, daughter of the actor Henri Dreyfus (performed as Henri Murray, or simply Murray) and Geneviève Sorya (family...
Ferrer, José
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Director: 1955 The Shrike (+ ro); Cockleshell Heroes (+ ro) 1956 The Great Man (+ co-sc, ro) 1957 I Accuse (+ ro as Dreyfus) 1958 The High Cost of Loving (+ ro) 1961 Return to Peyton Place 1962 State Fair Publications By FERRER: article—...
Racism, Anti-Semitism, and Psychoanalysis
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis ...the superior "dolichocephalic" Aryans and the inferior "brachycephalic" variety, which included Jews. Spurred on by the Dreyfus Case, É douard Drumont, in his La France juive (Jewish France; 1886), held the Jews to account for the "devastating...
Continental Philosophy
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas ...centuries continental and analytic philosophers have opened promising new dialogues as exemplified by Richard Rorty, Herbert Dreyfus, Charles Taylor, John McDowell, Hilary Putnam, Stanley Cavell, Alistair McIntyre, Hans-Georg Gadamer, and Jean-Fran...

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Dreyfus Separate Accounts Exceeds $2.5 Billion In Assets Under Management; Dreyfus Names Senior Executive Anthony C. DeVivio To Head Up Separate Accounts Initiative.
PR Newswire; 6/13/2002; 700+ words ; NEW YORK -- The Dreyfus Corporation and its subsidiary, Dreyfus Service Corporation, today announced assets in excess...management in Separate Accounts through the end of May 2002. Dreyfus Separate Accounts, initially launched in February 2000...
Dreyfus' flagship tries to make a return. (appoints Timothy Ghriskey as portfolio manager of $2.7 billion Dreyfus Fund)
Magazine article from: Crain's New York Business; 6/16/1997; ; 700+ words ; ...underperforming fund needs to improve The Dreyfus Corp.'s flagship mutual fund has a new captain. Dreyfus has tapped Timothy Ghriskey to succeed...portfolio manager of the $2.7 billion Dreyfus Fund. Mr. Wiggins, who also served as...
DREYFUS DIES POPULIST GOVERNOR WAS AS COLORFUL AS HIS VEST.(FRONT)
Newspaper article from: The Capital Times (Madison, WI); 1/3/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...Capital Times Former Gov. Lee Sherman Dreyfus, the red-vested former chancellor of...1978 and won, has died. He was 81. Dreyfus, who had been ill for some time, died...at his home in Waukesha, his son Lee Dreyfus Jr. said this morning. Dreyfus died...
DREYFUS RELISHED ROLE AS GOVERNOR.(FRONT)(THE TALK)(Column)
Newspaper article from: The Capital Times (Madison, WI); 1/4/2008; 700+ words ; ...the winter of 1980 I was sitting with Lee Dreyfus in his office in the State Capitol, listening to Dreyfus, who was Wisconsin's governor, grouse...get to heaven and find out God is fat," Dreyfus said, "I won't be happy." We were...
Dreyfus Premier Yield Advantage Fund and Dreyfus Premier Short Term Income Fund Are Now Available Through Additional Distribution Channels.
PR Newswire; 11/13/2002; 700+ words ; The Dreyfus Corporation today announced that the Dreyfus Yield Advantage Fund and the Dreyfus Short Term Income Fund have been added to its Premier family of funds. The newly-named Dreyfus Premier Yield Advantage Fund and Dreyfus Premier Short...
Dreyfus Selects Onyx Software To Drive Enhanced Service To Elite Retail Customers.
Business Wire; 2/6/2002; 700+ words ; ...Corporation (Nasdaq:ONXS) today announced The Dreyfus Corporation has selected Onyx CRM to drive increased retention of Dreyfus' most profitable customers. This marks an expansion of Dreyfus' use of Onyx to include its retail, as well as...
DREYFUS AND MELLON ANNOUNCE INDIVIDUALIZED ASSET MANAGEMENT AND TRUST SERVICES
PR Newswire; 5/16/1996; 700+ words ; Dreyfus Masterpiece Geared for Individual Investors...NEW YORK, May 16 /PRNewswire/ -- The Dreyfus Corporation and Mellon Bank Corporation...MEL) today announced the introduction of Dreyfus Masterpiece(SM), a customized asset...
Dreyfus Launches Two Fund of Funds.
PR Newswire; 9/29/2009; 700+ words ; ...29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The Dreyfus Corporation, part of BNY Mellon Asset...introduction of two new fund of funds. Dreyfus Satellite Alpha Fund seeks long-term...appreciation by allocating its assets to Dreyfus-advised mutual funds that invest in...
Dreyfus funds roar; Bonds in style; it still wants more equity.
Magazine article from: Crain's New York Business; 4/30/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...12 years heading taxable bond funds at Dreyfus Corp. and has never once been asked to...highs, it's the first time in years Dreyfus wants to boast about its strength in bonds...time when most fund firms are suffering, Dreyfus is posting its best results in a decade...
Dreyfus claws its way toward top of pack. (Dreyfus Corp.)
Magazine article from: Crain's New York Business; 1/19/1998; ; 700+ words ; ...laggards FOR YEARS, MANHATTAN-based Dreyfus Corp. was one of the few major mutual...they lost in redemptions. No wonder: Dreyfus' mutual fund assets grew by a meager...assets under management. These days, Dreyfus is more forthcoming. Chief Executive...