Alfred Dreyfus to Lucie Dreyfus

15.6.08

Alfred Dreyfus (1859-1935). A French-Jewish army officer, best remembered for his arrest for treason, which initiated a twelve-year controversy widely known as the Dreyfus Affair. While in prison, and just prior to his banishment to Devil's Island, he wrote his wife Lucie about his love for her. Finally, in 1906, the verdict was overturned, and all charges were dropped.


I am denied the right to see you. But I must trust in God's justice. In the end truth must prevail.
Crushed down in this sombre cell, alone with my reeling brain, I have had moments when I have been beside myself.
I embrace you a thousand times, as I love you, as I adore you.


written, GeminiSide

Tina Etheredge