Lucie Dreyfus died in Paris on 14 December 1945. She was deported to the East, and died of typhus in Auschwitz in January 1944, aged 25. Her granddaughter, Madeleine Levy, Jeanne's daughter, was arrested by French police in Toulouse. During the Second World War, Lucie is hosted in a convent in Valence under the name of Madame Duteil where only the mother superior knew her true identity. Īlfred Dreyfus died in Paris of a heart attack on 12 July 1935. ĭuring the First World War, she volunteered, and in 1933, she obtained a nursing certificate. I simply did my duty if I had done otherwise, I would have been criminal. If I endured these years of suffering, it was because I owed it to my husband, to my children. Why did you praise me so much, I'm far from deserving of it. In her correspondence with her friend, Hélène Naville, with humility, she calls her: Throughout the proceedings, she left the conduct of the defense of her husband to his brother-in-law, Mathieu Dreyfus. Her husband was finally rehabilitated, and rejoined the army and was awarded the Legion of Honor on 21 July 1903. It was necessary to wait until 12 July 1903, Zola had been dead for nearly four years, so that the judgment of Rennes could be broken without referral. A little justice on this earth would have pleased me. For me, I will, and I hope that the revenge of history will be more serious than the delights of paradise. And we add that when we are dead, it is we who will have the statues. in the same way, let the scoundrels keep the high ground, while you, the righteous, we push you to the creek. We have been promised, in compensation, the justice of history. Ten days later, Émile Zola wrote in L'Aurore an open letter to Madame Alfred Dreyfus: On 19 September 1899, Émile Loubet granted him a presidential pardon. He was sentenced again to ten years of imprisonment. She was in Rennes and waited for his appearance during his second trial on 1 July 1899. She published some letters to raise public awareness of the innocence of her husband. She had an important correspondence with her husband, even when he is exiled to Devil's Island. Lucie visited her husband daily in Parisian prisons and then on the Île de Ré. She saw her request for revision of 3 September 1898 be accepted. Called as a witness by Emile Zola, President Delegorgue refused to allow her to be heard. She addressed a petition to the chamber and a petition to the Pope on the 16 September 1896. In 1894, her husband was arrested, and the Dreyfus Affair broke out. Lucie was interested in literature, played the piano and regularly read her favorite historian: Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges. They went on a honeymoon trip to Italy and then to Switzerland, before returning by making a stop in Mulhouse. The couple moved to near the Champs-Élysées, living in the Rue François-Ier. They were married in Paris on 18 April 1891, celebrated at the Grand Synagogue of Paris, on the 21st by the Chief Rabbi of France, Zadoc Kahn who stood with the Dreyfusards afterwards. The couple became engaged during the winter of 1889–1890. In one of them, Lucie met Alfred Dreyfus, a classmate of her cousin Paul Hadamard. David Hadamard, Lucie's father, was a diamond merchant in Paris. The Hadamard family hailed from Koblenz, and spread to Metz and then settled, in the early nineteenth century, in Paris.
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