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The Dreyfus Affair in 1898-1899 was a classic example of religious persecution. Captain Alfred Dreyfus of the French army was a Jewish man that was convicted of treason on false charges. His family, Emile Zola, and other intellectuals all supported him, but the anti-Semites and army that had given manufactured evidence against him was a powerful opponent. Eventually Dreyfus was declared innocent, but the whole affair caused an uproar among intellectuals that were seeing with their own eyes the unfairness of the legal system and all of Europe. This event showed how the changing society looked down upon religious persecution.
 * 14: The extension and limitation of rights and liberties (personal, civic, economic, and political) majority and minority political persecutions.**