Dramatis Personae

THE DREYFUS FAMILY

Alfred Dreyfus

Lucie Dreyfus, wife

Mathieu Dreyfus, brother

Pierre and Jeanne Dreyfus, children

THE ARMY

General Auguste Mercier,
Minister of War, 1893–5

General Jean-Baptiste Billot,
Minister of War, 1896–8

General Raoul le Mouton de Boisdeffre,
Chief of the General Staff

General Charles Arthur Gonse,
Chief of the Second Department (Intelligence)

General Georges Gabriel de Pellieux,
Military Commander, Département of the Seine

Colonel Armand du Paty de Clam

Colonel Foucault,
military attaché in Berlin

Major Charles Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy,
74th Infantry Regiment

THE STATISTICAL SECTION

Colonel Jean Sandherr, Chief, 1887–95

Colonel Georges Picquart, Chief, 1895–7

Major Hubert Joseph Henry

Captain Jules-Maximillien Lauth

Captain Junck

Captain Valdant

Felix Gribelin, archivist

Madam Marie Bastian, agent

THE SÛRETÉ (DETECTIVE POLICE)

François Guénée

Jean-Alfred Desvernine

Louis Tomps

HANDWRITING EXPERT

Alphonse Bertillon

THE LAWYERS

Louis Leblois, Picquart’s friend and attorney

Ferdinand Labori, attorney to Zola, Picquart and Alfred Dreyfus

Edgar Demange, attorney to Alfred Dreyfus

Paul Bertulus, examining magistrate

GEORGES PICQUART’S CIRCLE

Pauline Monnier

Blanche de Comminges and family

Louis and Martha Leblois, friends from Alsace

Edmond and Jeanne Gast, cousins

Anna and Jules Gay, sister and brother-in-law

Germain Ducasse, friend and protégé

Major Albert Curé, old army comrade

THE DIPLOMATS

Colonel Maximilian von Schwartzkoppen,
German military attaché

Major Alessandro Panizzardi, Italian military attaché

THE “DREYFUSARDS”

Émile Zola

Georges Clemenceau,
politician and newspaper editor

Albert Clemenceau, lawyer

Auguste Scheurer-Kestner,
Vice President, French Senate

Jean Jaurès, leader of the French socialists

Joseph Reinach, politician and writer

Arthur Ranc, politician

Bernard Lazare, writer