L'affaire Dreyfus

Paris, 1894. "The Dreyfus Case" revolves around a framed-up charge of treason against Captain Alfred Dreyfus of the French Army. Treason had been committed adn Dreyfus was charged, largely because he was the only Jew on the staff. After making the charge, the army had to hold up its case or lose face, so they trumped up the evidence against him. What made it a world-famous matter, rather than a forgotten incident in French army life, was that Emile Zola took to the Dreyfus case and fought it in the courts. Despite having as counsel Georges Clemenceau Zola lost, but the story had gotten worldwide attention. After about 15 years Dreyfus was fully vindicated.