[DREYFUS AFFAIR]: [DREYFUS ALFRED]: (1859-1935) French artillery officer of Jewish ancestry whose trial and conviction in 1894 on charges of treason became one of the most polarising political dramas in modern French history. Known as the Dreyfus Affair, it ultimately ended with Dreyfus's complete exoneration. A pair of vintage unsigned French postcard photographs relating to Dreyfus; the first, from a photograph by Charles Chusseau-Flaviens, depicting Dreyfus and Commanding Officer Antoine Targe standing in full-length poses, wearing their uniforms, in the courtyard of the military school at Paris, as Dreyfus prepares to be decorated with the Legion d'Honneur by General Gillain, on 21^st July 1906, and the second, also at the military school on the same day, depicting Dreyfus seated in a full-length pose in a horse drawn carriage as he leaves the school, with several men standing to one side as they bid him farewell. Some very light, minor silvering to the base of the second postcard, otherwise VG, 2

Antoine Targe (1865-1942) French general who played an important role in the rehabilitation of Dreyfus.

On 12^th July 1906 Dreyfus had been officially exonerated by a military commission and the day following was readmitted into the army with a promotion to the rank of major. Later in the month he was made a Knight of the Legion of Honour.