Ferdinand-Camille Dreyfus, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French journalist and politician
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Place of Birth: Paris, ĂŽle-de-France, France
About Ferdinand-Camille Dreyfus
- Ferdinand-Camille Dreyfus (Paris, 19 August 1851 – 1905) was a French journalist and politician, unrelated to his contemporary Captain Alfred Dreyfus.After a classical and commercial education he prepared himself for the École Polytechnique, but on the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War left his studies to serve as a volunteer.
- In 1873 he became editor of L'Avenir de la Sarthe and served five months in prison for opposing the dictatorship of MacMahon.
- He afterward controlled Le Libéral de la Vendée.
- In 1879, he became chief of the bureau of the financial under-secretary, and later represented the government at the Brussels Exhibition of 1880. Becoming editor of La Lanterne in 1882, he founded two years later Le Matin.
- In December, 1882, he was chosen to represent the Gros-Caillou quarter in the municipal council of Paris, and was reelected in 1884.
- Dreyfus in this position showed a remarkable aptitude for finance.
- In October, 1885, he was elected deputy by the department of the Seine, and was reelected, for the Twelfth District, in 1889, in opposition to a Boulangist candidate.
- A radical, with wide schemes of reform, Dreyfus sat with the Extreme Left.
- He was appointed a member of the army commission, and also on that of espionage.
- He fought many duels, one with the Marquis de Morès, the anti-Semite.
- His publications include: Une Dictature (Le Mans, 1874); Giboyer à Saint-Pélagie (Paris, 1875); L'Evolution des Mondes et des Sociétés (Paris, 1888); Les Traités de Commerce (Tours, 1879); Le Tunnel du Simplon et les Intérêts Français (Paris, 1879); L'Angleterre, son Gouvernement, ses Institutions (Paris, 1881); La Guerre Nécessaire, Réponse d'un Français à M.
- de Bismarck (Paris, 1890).
- Dreyfus was also secretary and part founder of La Grande Encyclopédie.
- He was a member of the LĂ©gion d'honneur.
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