Rise of far right puts Dreyfus affair into spotlight in French election race

As Emmanuel Macron opens a museum dedicated to the exonerated Jewish soldier, ultra-nationalists led by Eric Zemmour again question his innocence

More than a century after he was exonerated, Alfred Dreyfus, the Jewish army officer whose false conviction for treason sparked bitter controversy, has erupted into France's presidential race amid far-right attempts to question his innocence.

Emmanuel Macron last week personally inaugurated the first museum dedicated to the Dreyfus affair, a historical collection exhibited in the house of Emile Zola, the writer and best-known defender of the persecuted officer, in Medan west of Paris.