Editing Dreyfus affair (section)

=== The enquiry and the first military court ===
[[File:Dreyfus-in-Prison-1895.jpg|thumb|upright|Cover of ''[[Le Petit Journal (newspaper)|Le Petit Journal]]'', 20 January 1895 (illustration by [[Fortuné Méaulle]] after [[Lionel Royer]])]]
Mrs. Dreyfus was informed of the arrest the same day by a police raid to search their apartment. She was terrorized by Du Paty, who ordered her to keep the arrest of her husband secret and even said, "One word, one single word and it will be a European war!"<ref>Mathieu Dreyfus [http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k24254t ''The Affair that I lived''], p. 20 and s. {{in lang|fr}}</ref> Illegally,<ref>No defendant could be held incommunicado under any law of the time. The risk of leakage was limited by the fact that lawyers are subject to professional secrecy. Supreme Court, ''On Justice in the Dreyfus Affair'', Duclert, p. 51. {{in lang|fr}}</ref> Dreyfus was placed in solitary confinement in prison, where Du Paty interrogated him day and night in order to obtain a confession, which failed. The captain was morally supported by the first Dreyfusard, Major Forzinetti, commandant of the military prisons of Paris.

On 29 October 1894, the affair was revealed in an article in ''[[La Libre Parole]]'', the antisemitic newspaper owned by [[Édouard Drumont]]. This marked the beginning of a very brutal press campaign until the trial. This event put the affair in the field of antisemitism where it remained until its conclusion.<ref>Bredin, ''The Affair'', p. 80. {{in lang|fr}}</ref>

On 1 November 1894, Alfred's brother, Mathieu Dreyfus, became aware of the arrest after being called urgently to Paris. He became the architect of the arduous fight for the liberation of his brother.<ref>Mathieu Dreyfus, [http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k24254t ''The Affair that I lived''] {{in lang|fr}}.</ref> Without hesitation, he began looking for a lawyer, and retained the distinguished criminal lawyer [[Edgar Demange]].<ref>Edgar Demange, winner of a national eloquence competition, obtained the acquittal of [[Pierre Napoleon Bonaparte|Prince Pierre Bonaparte]], who killed the Republican [[Victor Noir]] in 1870. A specialist in criminal law, he was recognized by his peers and elected member of the Council of the Bar from 1888 to 1892. In an historical irony, it was Demange who obtained the acquittal of the [[Marquis de Mores]], assassin of the Jewish Captain Mayer in a duel. Y. Repiquet, president of the bar, in Edgar Demange and Fernand Labori, Supreme Court, ''Justice From the Dreyfus Affair'', p. 274. {{in lang|fr}}</ref>