Julia Louis-Dreyfus – Jewcy https://jewcy.com Jewcy is what matters now Fri, 14 Jul 2017 20:29:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.9.5 https://jewcy.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/cropped-Screen-Shot-2021-08-13-at-12.43.12-PM-32x32.png Julia Louis-Dreyfus – Jewcy https://jewcy.com 32 32 Dreyfus! Dreyfus! Dreyfuss! https://jewcy.com/family/dreyfus-dreyfus-dreyfuss?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=dreyfus-dreyfus-dreyfuss https://jewcy.com/family/dreyfus-dreyfus-dreyfuss#comments Fri, 14 Jul 2017 20:29:57 +0000 http://jewcy.com/?p=160569 Which celebrity actor is related to the famously wrongfully accused French Jewish officer?

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As the French get ready to celebrate their weird, fraught history today, what better time to remind them of when their military orchestrated a witch hunt against a Jewish officer and essentially framed him for being a spy, causing one of the greatest scandals of the late 19th/early 20th century?

And what better way to celebrate Alfred Dreyfus’s eventual exoneration than a look at who is (and who might be) a living relative of the lieutenant-colonel today?

Spoiler alert: They’re all actors.

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