Overview
- The Senate is examining the bill on Thursday and is expected to approve an identical text, enabling final adoption after June’s unanimous National Assembly vote.
- The one-sentence proposal from former prime minister Gabriel Attal declares that the French nation elevates Alfred Dreyfus posthumously to brigadier general.
- The legislation follows the creation of a national day of commemoration on 12 July honoring his judicial exoneration, announced by President Emmanuel Macron this summer.
- Centrist and Republican senators have voiced reservations and may abstain, with Armed Forces committee chair Cédric Perrin saying he is profoundly uncomfortable with the initiative.
- Dreyfus’s descendants support the move as overdue recognition, noting the 1906 law reinstated him at a lower rank without counting his years of unjust detention.