ABSTRACT
The degradation ceremony was hardly over when rumours began to circulate that Dreyfus had confessed his guilt. Several newspapers, including Le Temps, reported that he had said to Captain Lebrun-Renault, his escort to the Ecole Militaire: ‘I am innocent; if I passed on any documents to a foreign power it was as bait, in order to obtain more important ones in return; in three years’ time, the truth will be known, and the Minister will take up my case again.’
