Marie georges picquart biography

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    • Marie Georges Picquart (1854 - 1914)

    Marie Georges(Georges)Picquart

    Born in Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France

    Son of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]

    [sibling(s) unknown]

    [spouse(s) unknown]

    [children unknown]

    Died at age 59in Amiens, Somme, France

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    Biography

    Georges Picquart is Notable.

    Marie Georges Picquart was a French army officer and Minister of War. His family was from Alsace, France. He is best known for his role in the Dreyfus Affair. Picquart was a figure of global controversy, revered and reviled in equal measure as the world’s most famous whistle-blower.[1]

    As chief of the army intelligence section in 1896, he discovered that the memorandum that had been used to convict Captain Alfred Dreyfus had probably been the work of Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy. Higher officials warned Picquart to conceal his discovery; he persisted and was sent in December 1896 to T