{"id":2822,"date":"2020-04-05T22:46:02","date_gmt":"2020-04-05T20:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dicoaffairedreyfus.com\/?p=2822"},"modified":"2025-12-12T16:23:44","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T15:23:44","slug":"commandant-eugene-dattel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dicoaffairedreyfus.com\/index.php\/2020\/04\/05\/commandant-eugene-dattel\/","title":{"rendered":"Commandant Eug\u00e8ne d’Attel"},"content":{"rendered":"

Attel, Eug\u00e8ne d<\/span>\u2019, militaire fran\u00e7ais n\u00e9 \u00e0 Hestroff (Moselle) le 16 ao\u00fbt 1858*, d\u00e9c\u00e9d\u00e9 \u00e0\u00a0Paris le 1er<\/sup> octobre 1895.<\/p>\r\n

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Saint-cyrien (1876), o\u00f9 il connut et se lia d\u2019amiti\u00e9 avec le marquis de Mor\u00e8s<\/a>, il fut nomm\u00e9 lieutenant d’infanterie de ligne en 1882 et capitaine en 1885. Brevet\u00e9 de l’\u00e9cole de Guerre, il fut commandant fin 1894, nomination qui faisait de lui le plus jeune commandant de l’arm\u00e9e<\/span><\/span>. Sur le continent Africain depuis d\u00e9cembre 1878, il fut appel\u00e9 en Alg\u00e9rie de juin 1881 \u00e0 mars 1882, en Afrique de mars 1882 \u00e0 janvier 1883, au Tonkin de novembre 1884 \u00e0 mai 1886 et \u00e0 nouveau en Alg\u00e9rie jusqu\u2019en octobre 1887.
Le capitaine d\u2019Attel aurait entendu, le jour de la d\u00e9gradation<\/a>, Dreyfus<\/a> faire des aveux et en aurait parl\u00e9 \u00e0 deux connaissances : le capitaine Anthoine<\/a> et \u00e0 Wunenburger<\/a> qu\u2019il avait crois\u00e9 une heure apr\u00e8s et auquel il avait dit que Dreyfus \u00ab a[vait] avou\u00e9 \u00bb.\u00a0Mort en octobre 1895, d’Attel ne pourra jamais en t\u00e9moigner. Le capitaine Anthoine le fera pour lui en une d\u00e9claration \u00e0 Gonse<\/a> en janvier 1898, rapportant les propos qui auraient et ceux de son ami : \u00ab Pour ce que j\u2019ai livr\u00e9, cela n\u2019en valait pas la peine. Si on m\u2019avait laiss\u00e9 faire, j\u2019aurais eu davantage en \u00e9change \u00bb (AN BB19<\/sup> 108, publi\u00e9e dans Cassation I.\u00a0II, tome 2, p. 133-134 et reprise ici dans la notice Anthoine<\/a>), d\u00e9claration \u2013 diff\u00e9rente de celle de Lebrun Renaud<\/a> ! \u2013 que reprendra Cavaignac<\/a> \u00e0 l’occasion de son fameux discours le 7 juilllet 1898. D’Attel sera encore \u00e9voqu\u00e9 \u00e0 Rennes<\/a>,\u00a0Forzinetti<\/a> venant t\u00e9moigner \u00e0 son sujet, disant l\u2019avoir \u00ab intimement connu \u00bb et vu \u00e0 plusieurs reprises apr\u00e8s la d\u00e9gradation sans que jamais, \u00e9voquant l\u2019affaire Dreyfus, il ne lui confi\u00e2t quoi que ce soit relativement \u00e0 des aveux. Roget<\/a>, qui l\u2019avait aussi bien connu, viendra contredire Forzinetti en tentant d\u2019expliquer ce silence de d\u2019Attel par le fait qu\u2019il \u00e9tait \u00ab tr\u00e8s froid, extr\u00eamement r\u00e9serv\u00e9, pas communicatif du tout \u00bb et \u00ab ne faisait de confidences \u00e0 personne \u00bb. Mais il viendra surtout porter le soup\u00e7on sur le t\u00e9moin en lui demandant s\u2019il pouvait pr\u00e9ciser l\u2019adresse de d\u2019Attel\u2026 (Rennes<\/em> III, p. 102, 108, 109).
Sa curieuse mort \u2013 il fut retrouv\u00e9 sans vie dans le compartiment du train qui le conduisait \u00e0 Saint-Denis (voir la presse du 4 et 5 octobre 1895) \u2013, sera bien s\u00fbr exploit\u00e9e par les antidreyfusards, \u00e0 l\u2019image de cette lettre qu\u2019un journaliste, Bruel<\/a>, fit parvenir au g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de Luxer<\/a> et dans laquelle il soutenait que \u00ab cette noble et innocente victime \u00bb avait \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00ab supprim\u00e9e [\u2026] parce qu\u2019il \u00e9tait un obstacle vivant \u00e0 des projets pour la r\u00e9alisation desquels leurs auteurs n\u2019h\u00e9siteraient pas \u00e0 mettre en p\u00e9ril la patrie fran\u00e7aise elle-m\u00eame \u00bb. Cette accusation, que l\u2019on retrouvera tout au long de l\u2019Affaire, sera reprise par la suite par Charles Fleury<\/a> et Albert Monniot<\/a> et par quelques auteurs modernes. En fait la mort de d’Attel et sans myst\u00e8re et malade depuis de longues ann\u00e9es sa mort ne pouvait qu’\u00ab \u00eatre attribu\u00e9e qu\u2019\u00e0 une cause naturelle \u00bb (voir bibliographie).<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Sources et bibliographie : on trouvera quelques informations biographiques dans la lettre de Bruel publi\u00e9e dans la presse antidreyfusarde du 24 avril 1898. On consultera son dossier militaire au SHD sous la cote : 5 Ye 61652\u00a0; son dossier de la L\u00e9gion d\u2019honneur sous la cote : LH\/2776\/87<\/a>. Sur les accusations \u00e9voqu\u00e9es de meurtre, voir : Charles Fleury, La R\u00e9publique juive. Ses trahisons. Ses gaspillages. Ses crimes\u00a0!<\/em>, Paris, Imprimeries, \u00e9dition et publicit\u00e9s Belleville, 1910, p. 364 et Albert Monniot, Les Morts myst\u00e9rieuses. Les oubliettes modernes<\/em>, Paris, Pierre T\u00e9qui libraire-\u00e9diteur, 1918, p. 99-102.
Sur sa mort, on pourra lire la mise au point sur le blog de la SihaD.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n

Philippe Oriol<\/em><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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