XIR384586 Title page depicting the Henry-Picquart duel, opposing officers during the Dreyfus affair, illustration from the illustrated supplement of Le Petit Journal, 20th March, 1898 (colour litho) by Meyer, Henri (1841-99); Private Collection; (add.info.: the Dreyfus affair involved the conviction for treason in November 1894 of Captain Alfred Dreyfus for having passed on French military secrets to the German Embassy; he was later found innocent; Colonel Henry committed suicide after it was foujd he had forged documents pertaining to Drefus\'s guilt; Marie Georges Picquart (1854-1914), a French Minister of War, exposed the truth in the Dreyfus affair;); French, out of copyright.