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Events on Tuesday 19 September 1899 1
1899Dreyfus retried and pardonedThe Rennes court-martial and presidential pardonA military court-martial in Rennes retried Captain Alfred Dreyfus on charges of treason, again finding him guilty but with "extenuating circumstances" on 9 September 1899. President Émile Loubet pardoned Dreyfus ten days later, though he was not formally exonerated until 1906. The case had bitterly divided French society for years.