Georges Picquart [SEP] position held
Georges Picquart
Marie-Georges Picquart (6 September 1854, Strasbourg, France – 19 January 1914, Amiens, France) was a French army officer and Minister of War. He is best known for his role in the Dreyfus Affair.
Early career.
Picquart began his military career in 1872, graduating from the "Ecole Spéciale Militaire de Saint-Cyr" as fifth in his year. Picquart served as an infantry officer in France before seeing service in Indochina. He subsequently studied at the General Staff Academy (
the Ministry of War that a report on his activity in the Action française had been filed in his dossier as an officer.
On 26 April 1907 "Le Gaulois" published his open letter to Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau in which he responded to the report by saying he would again put up posters against the rehabilitation of Dreyfus and Picquart. On 16 May 1907 he was suspended from his duties as a reserve officer for one year.
Montesquiou held a meeting of 5,000 supporters two days later.
Following an inquiry he