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- President Emmanuel Macron and Mayor Ariel Weil installed the 3.5-metre Alfred Dreyfus statue on Rue de Harlay, Île de la Cité, on 12 July 2026.
- The statue, commissioned by President François Mitterrand in 1985, was repeatedly rejected by military and shuffled between Tuileries and a site near former Cherche-Midi jail.
- Mayor Weil said the new location in front of the Cour de cassation corrects the historic injustice of the army’s earlier refusal.
