Hubert-Joseph Henry (2 June 1846-31 August 1898) was a French Army lieutenant-colonel who forged evidence against Alfred Dreyfus during the Dreyfus affair of the 1890s and was later found dead in his prison cell after being arrested for forgery.
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Hubert-Joseph Henry was born in Pogny, Marne, France on 2 June 1846, and he joined the French Army in 1865 and was captured twice during the Franco-Prussian War, escaping each time. He became a lieutenant in 1870 before joining the Ministry of War's statistics section in 1875, serving in Tunisia, Tonkin, and Algeria before returning to counter-intelligence duties in Paris. During the Dreyfus affair, Henry forged a document to "prove" Captain Alfred Dreyfus' treason during the Dreyfus affair, but, when his superior Georges Picquart attempted to prove Dreyfus' innocence, it was Picquart who was removed from office and arrested and Henry who was promoted. However, on 30 August 1898, a new investigation led to Henry confessing his role in the forgery, and he was found dead in his cell with a throat wound a day later, with the razor used in his death not being found at the scene; this led to accusations of murder on the part of the military as part of a cover-up.
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