- Born
- December 16, 1847
- Died
- May 21, 1923 (aged 75)
- Known as
- military personnel, spy
Charles Marie Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy was an officer in the French Army from 1870 to 1898. He gained notoriety as a spy for the German Empire and the actual perpetrator of the act of treason of which Captain Alfred Dreyfus was wrongfully accused and convicted in 1894.
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