leadership of covering up the affair. Dreyfus was eventually exonerated, rehabilitated and reinstated in the French army, although at a lower rank than his seniority would have warranted.

"Anti-Dreyfusards" and antisemites in France, however, viewed even his rehabilitation unfavorably, and while attending the transfer of Zola's remains to the Panthéon, Dreyfus was the target of an unsuccessful assassination attempt by an antisemitic militarist who was later acquitted at trial. Dreyfus later fought