After the allocation of a general range, will Alfred Dreyfus end entering the pantheon? This Monday, June 2, the bill of the president of the Renaissance Gabriel Attal to raise the captain “on Monday, June 2 to raise the degree of general brigade” was voted unanimously.
This vote, which aimed to embody “an act of compensation” to complete his rehabilitation, 130 years after his conviction, was praised by his great -grandchildren Michel Dreyfus this Tuesday in RTL.
“A necessary gesture”
When asked about a possible pantheonization, he also responded to see “something important.” “This is an approach that we will support,” said his descendant. The message was well received by Emmanuel Macron.
“For a long time, the president has been thinking of a necessary gesture that will remember the news of the fight of the Dreyfusards and the values of dreyfusism,” explains Emmanuel Macron’s entourage to BFMTV, confirming RTL information.
In 1894, the Jewish officer Alfred Dreyfus was sentenced to deportation to perpetuity and military deterioration for having pretended to deliver French secret documents to the German Empire, in a context of strong anti -Semitism. He was then sent to Diablo Island, in Guyana.
A possibility mentioned in the 2000s
Twelve years later, in 1906, he was finally innocent and returned to the French army for which he was fighting during the Great War. But Alfred Dreyfus will never reach the range that he should have achieved if he had not been convicted.
This rehabilitation is very experienced by anti -Semitic circles anti -crusaders that will be directed in particular during an attack, the day of the transfer of ashes to the pantheon of Émile Zola, author of I accused …! and fierce army defender.
A forgotten moment of historical research, the pantheonization of Alfred Dreyfus posed for the first time in the 2000s after the publication of the work of historian Vincent Duchlert, Alfred Dreyfus. The honor of a patriot.
“A conclusion” that “should soon”
Jacques Chirac, the President of the Republic of the time, had planned before reverse, preferring a national ceremony to commemorate the centenary of the rehabilitation of this Jewish captain Alsaciano.
Among the arguments presented by the Head of State at that time, there was in particular the position of certain historians who judged that Albert Dreyfus was a victim and did not have his place with the great men who represented the nation. But the situation can soon change.
“The conclusion of this reflection should not be long,” said the Elysée.
A president attached to pantheonizations
Already in 2019, the president requested the attribution of the general range of Albert Dreyfus, however, judging that he was undoubtedly “to the military institution, in a dialogue with the representatives of the French people” to do so.
Several votes now call to accelerate and, ultimately, take the soldier to the pantheon as the former Minister of Health, Aurélien Rousseau, now public attached PS-Place.
Since 2017, Emmanuel Macron has trampled Simone Veil, Maurice Gineboix, Joséphine Baker and Missak Manouchian, each time with a staging of political and moral values of which the head of state affirms to be.
The former Seals Robert Badinter guardian and historian Marc Bloch will give their entrance respectively on October 9 and June 16, 2026.
Source: BFM TV
