1898 arrest of colonel Marie Georges Picquart,
French satirical illustration, showing, the 1898 arrest of colonel Marie Georges Picquart, French army officer and Minister of War. Picquart acted as reporter of the debates in the first Dreyfus court martial. He was appointed chief of the army's intelligence section. Picquart discovered that the memorandum (bordereau) used to convict Captain Alfred Dreyfus, had actually been the work of Major Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy. After the trial of Emile Zola for writing the 1898 open letter J'Accuse…!, Picquart was himself accused of forging the note that had convinced him of Esterhazy's guilt. He was arrested for forgery but after the exoneration of Dreyfus in 1906 he was absolved
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