Georges-Gabriel de Pellieux
| George Gabriel de Pellieux | |
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Général de Pellieux in 1898
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| Born |
6 September 1842 Strasbourg, France |
| Died | 15 July 1900 (aged 57) Quimper, France |
| Nationality | French |
| Occupation | Brigadier general |
| Known for | Testimony at trial of Émile Zola |
George Gabriel de Pellieux (6 September 1842 - 15 July 1900) was a French army officer who was best known for ignoring evidence during the Dreyfus affair, a scandal in which a Jewish officer was convicted of treason on the basis of a forgery.
George-Gabriel de Pellieux was born in Strasbourg, France on 6 September 1842. His father, Captain Jean Honoré Théodore Pellieux, served in the 10th artillery regiment. George-Gabriel de Pellieux entered the military college of Saint Cyr when he was seventeen, and in 1861 became a sub-lieutenant in the infantry. He was promoted to lieutenant in 1864 and captain in 1868. During the Franco-Prussian War (19 July 1870 – 10 May 1871) he was aide to General Eugène Arnaudeau and officer attached to the general staff. He was decorated with the Legion of Honor in May 1871, effective 14 October 1870.
De Pellieux served in Algeria as aide to General Carteret between 1872 and 1878. In 1880 he was prompted to battalion chief. He was made an officer of the Legion of Honour on 7 February 1882. He was on the staff of General François Auguste Logerot in Tunisia from 1882 to 1886. In 1890 he was promoted to colonel. He was appointed Chief of Staff of the 13th Corps in Clermont-Ferrand in 1892. In 1894 he was promoted to brigadier general. In 1897 de Pellieux was made military commander of the Seine department and provisional commander of Paris.
In January 1895 Alfred Dreyfus, an army officer, was found guilty of authoring an anonymous note (bordereau) to the military attaché of the German embassy in Paris, and was exiled for life to Devil's Island off the coast of French Guiana. Anti-semitism played a role in the court-martial verdict. Later Lieutenant-Colonel Georges Picquart, head of the Intelligence Service, found evidence that Major Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy had written the bordereau, not Dreyfus.
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