Download or read book Lettres D'un Innocent written by L. G. Moreau and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-19 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Lettres D'un Innocent: The Letters of Captain Dreyfus to His Wife As has been said, the conditions under which these letters were written forbade the author to indulge in details concerning the circumstances of his awful fate. Hence, for a fuller appreciation and a better under standing of the emotions that moved the writer at given periods, the following data must constantly be borne in mind: Dreyfus was arrested October 15, 1894 his trial by court-martial began December 19 of the same year and ended December 23. The condemned man was pub licly degraded January 5, 1895, and on the 9th day of the following February the Chamber passed a law de creeing his place of confinement to be French Guiana, in South America; in March he was transported thither. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.