1899
January 21 : Following another distraint order and
public auction against Zola' estate, publisher Fasquelle buys a mirror and a
table for 2500 Francs.
January 27 : Reinach's libel trial at Mme Henry's request.
January 28 : Proposal in the Chamber of Deputies to have the Dreyfus Case heard by a Supreme Court of Appeals, with all three Chambers sitting jointly (loi de désaisissement).
February 10 : The proposal, modifying the normal jurisdictional process, is voted as Law.
The Court of Appeals rejects the demands by the Military to stop the process for retrial.
February 16 : President Félix Faure dies suddenly in his office.
February 18 : Emile Loubet, a supporter of the Dreyfus' cause, succeeds Felix Faure as President of the Republic.
Nationalist demonstrations in Paris.
March 21 : First plenary session of the Supreme Court of Appeals, with all three Chambers sitting jointly, Charles Mazeau presiding.
The sessions will end April 23. Cuignet and du Paty de Clam have been summoned.
June 1 : Du Paty de Clam is arrested.
June 3 : The Court of Appeals overturns the verdict of 1894. The circumstances of the arrest, the trial of 1894, and the new facts which have since been established all indicate the innocence of Dreyfus. By decree, Dreyfus is called before a new Court-martial remanded at Rennes. Du Paty de Clam is arrested.
June 4 : At the horse races in Auteuil, Baron Christiani attacks President Loubet with his cane.
June 5 : Zola returns to France from England and challenges the Versailles verdict.
Picquart is released from prison
Dreyfus is informed that his retrial has been finally granted.
He leaves Devil's island on June 9.
June 12 : Prime Minister Dupuy resigns.
June 22 : Prime Minister René Waldeck-Rousseau starts a new Cabinet, called the "government of the Republican Defense." Its name derives from the association of extremes, such as the Socialist Millerand as new Minister of Commerce, with General de Galliffet, infamous for his bloody repression of the Communards in 1871, now Minister of War.
July 1 : Dreyfus returns to France and is jailed at the military prison in Rennes.
July18 : Esterhazy reveals in Le Matin that he wrote the "bordereau," but "under dictation" and by order from his superiors.
August 7 : The new Dreyfus trial takes place in Rennes, in Brittany, in an attempt to avoid the Parisian populace.
August 12 : General Mercier is subpoenaed as a witness.
In Paris, the Police start arresting Nationalist demonstrators, including Paul Déroulède. Jules Guérin, director of L'Antijuif, an antisemitic paper, barricades himself with some friends in the Free-Mason headquarters, rue de Chabrol. The antic, which lasts until September 20, will be nicknamed by the press "the siege of Fort Chabrol"
August 14 : In Rennes, a fanatic fires shots at Dreyfus' lawyer Labori, who remains in critical condition for a few days.
September 9 : Despite the evidence of his innocence, the Military Court finds Dreyfus guilty of treason once again, this time with "extenuating circumstances," and condemns him to ten years detention. The verdict causes an uproar.
September 19 : With full approval of the Waldeck-Rousseau Cabinet, President Loubet signs Dreyfus' pardon. Against the advice of most of his supporters, the innocent officer, exhausted after six years of solitary confinement, accepts the Presidential grace with the proviso he can continue his fight to prove his innocence.
Scheurer-Kestner, who has been battling cancer for a long time, dies on the same day.
September 21 : Minister of War, General de Galliffet, proclaims in a military order: "the incident is over."
January 27 : Reinach's libel trial at Mme Henry's request.
January 28 : Proposal in the Chamber of Deputies to have the Dreyfus Case heard by a Supreme Court of Appeals, with all three Chambers sitting jointly (loi de désaisissement).
February 10 : The proposal, modifying the normal jurisdictional process, is voted as Law.
The Court of Appeals rejects the demands by the Military to stop the process for retrial.
February 16 : President Félix Faure dies suddenly in his office.
February 18 : Emile Loubet, a supporter of the Dreyfus' cause, succeeds Felix Faure as President of the Republic.
Nationalist demonstrations in Paris.
March 21 : First plenary session of the Supreme Court of Appeals, with all three Chambers sitting jointly, Charles Mazeau presiding.
The sessions will end April 23. Cuignet and du Paty de Clam have been summoned.
June 1 : Du Paty de Clam is arrested.
June 3 : The Court of Appeals overturns the verdict of 1894. The circumstances of the arrest, the trial of 1894, and the new facts which have since been established all indicate the innocence of Dreyfus. By decree, Dreyfus is called before a new Court-martial remanded at Rennes. Du Paty de Clam is arrested.
June 4 : At the horse races in Auteuil, Baron Christiani attacks President Loubet with his cane.
June 5 : Zola returns to France from England and challenges the Versailles verdict.
Picquart is released from prison
Dreyfus is informed that his retrial has been finally granted.
He leaves Devil's island on June 9.
June 12 : Prime Minister Dupuy resigns.
June 22 : Prime Minister René Waldeck-Rousseau starts a new Cabinet, called the "government of the Republican Defense." Its name derives from the association of extremes, such as the Socialist Millerand as new Minister of Commerce, with General de Galliffet, infamous for his bloody repression of the Communards in 1871, now Minister of War.
July 1 : Dreyfus returns to France and is jailed at the military prison in Rennes.
July18 : Esterhazy reveals in Le Matin that he wrote the "bordereau," but "under dictation" and by order from his superiors.
August 7 : The new Dreyfus trial takes place in Rennes, in Brittany, in an attempt to avoid the Parisian populace.
August 12 : General Mercier is subpoenaed as a witness.
In Paris, the Police start arresting Nationalist demonstrators, including Paul Déroulède. Jules Guérin, director of L'Antijuif, an antisemitic paper, barricades himself with some friends in the Free-Mason headquarters, rue de Chabrol. The antic, which lasts until September 20, will be nicknamed by the press "the siege of Fort Chabrol"
August 14 : In Rennes, a fanatic fires shots at Dreyfus' lawyer Labori, who remains in critical condition for a few days.
September 9 : Despite the evidence of his innocence, the Military Court finds Dreyfus guilty of treason once again, this time with "extenuating circumstances," and condemns him to ten years detention. The verdict causes an uproar.
September 19 : With full approval of the Waldeck-Rousseau Cabinet, President Loubet signs Dreyfus' pardon. Against the advice of most of his supporters, the innocent officer, exhausted after six years of solitary confinement, accepts the Presidential grace with the proviso he can continue his fight to prove his innocence.
Scheurer-Kestner, who has been battling cancer for a long time, dies on the same day.
September 21 : Minister of War, General de Galliffet, proclaims in a military order: "the incident is over."
