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4mo ago

French Lawmakers Propose Posthumous Promotion for Alfred Dreyfus

Gabriel Attal and Socialist senators submit matching bills to elevate Dreyfus to général de brigade, addressing historic injustice and rising antisemitism.

Gabriel Attal a annoncé mardi 6 mai 2025 avoir déposé une proposition de loi à l’Assemblée pour élever le capitaine Alfred Dreyfus au rang de général. Ici, la sculpture du capitaine Dreyfus réalisée par Sylvie Koechlin à Mulhouse.
Le chef de file des députés Renaissance Gabriel Attal.
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Overview

  • Gabriel Attal, leader of the Renaissance group in the National Assembly, has formally submitted a bill to posthumously promote Alfred Dreyfus to général de brigade.
  • The proposal mirrors a similar bill submitted by Socialist senators, led by Patrick Kanner, to the French Senate on April 29, 2025.
  • The initiative seeks to symbolically repair the antisemitic injustice of Dreyfus's wrongful 1894 conviction and deportation to Devil’s Island.
  • Proponents frame the promotion as an homage to Dreyfus’s republican commitment and a response to contemporary increases in antisemitic acts in France.
  • No parliamentary examination date has been set for either bill, but the proposals have drawn bipartisan support as a non-partisan symbolic gesture.