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Convicted of spying in a secret court-martial trial in 1894, Dreyfus was publicly humiliated in a "degradation" ceremony attended by 20,000 spectators crying "Death to the Jew," and exiled to Ile du Diable, the prison off the South American coast.

He has been confined ever since on the Ile du Diable under the strictest surveillance.

Ile du Diable, an island off the coast of French Guiana, where Captain Dreyfus was confined.

Then no more came, and he had learned from a newspaper that three convicts having attempted to escape from the Ile du Diable, had been drowned before they were able to reach the mainland.