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Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy , 1847-1923, French army officer, member of a French family possibly related to the Hungarian family of Esterhazy. A veteran of the papal army and the French Foreign Legion, he entered the regular French army and rose to be a major. Deep in debt, he sold 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, but his fellow officers quickly acquitted him. He subsequently fled to England,... Read more
Georges Picquart
...Dreyfus Affair ) had probably been the work of Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy . Higher officials warned Picquart to conceal his...accused of forging the note that had convinced him of Esterhazy's guilt. He was dismissed from the service and... Read more
Dreyfus Affair
...discovered evidence indicating Major Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy , who was deep in debt, as the...pressure to reopen the case. Esterhazy was tried (Jan., 1898) by a...office in their acquittal of Esterhazy. Zola was tried for libel and... Read more

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