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Alfred —, French army officer whose imprisonment for treason in 1894 raised issues of anti-Semitism (7)

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I believe the answer is:

dreyfus

(Other definitions for dreyfus that I've seen before include "Frenchman involved in affair" , "French captain, wrongly convicted 1894" , "French army officer" , "- Affair, in which Zola was involved" , "The - Affair in France concerned a wrongly imprisoned officer" .)

I've seen this clue in The Mirror.
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