The “do you know” of the day. Do you know what the link is between Captain Dreyfus and Meurthe-et-Moselle?

In fact, there is not one link between Meurthe-et-Moselle and the captain who is the victim of a legal scandal but two.

The first concerns its origins. Because if his father, Raphaël, descends from an old Jewish family settled in Alsace, more precisely near Mulhouse, his mother, Jeanne (or Jeannette depending on the sources) Libman-Weill is a Lorraine from Lunéville, born in 1817, died in 1886.

The other attachment is less friendly. It concerns General Auguste Mercier, whose remains rest in the Préville cemetery in Nancy. Then, Minister of War, he will be the main accuser of the captain who was condemned in 1894, in a context of strong anti-Semitism, for acts of treason and espionage for the benefit of Germany on the basis of a fake. And nothing will ever do it, neither the discovery of the real traitor, Commander Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy, nor even the rehabilitation of Alfred Dreyfus, Mercier will remain stuck to his positions, will continue to assert against all odds that the captain is guilty…

We can also add an element that links Dreyfus (1859-1935) to the region: his wife, Lucie Hadamard, married in 1890 and who comes from a cultivated and very wealthy family from Metz.