Early Career
Major Picquart began his military career in 1872, graduating from the école spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr fifth in his year. Following service as an officer of Tirailleurs (native infantry) in French Algeria he subsequently studied at the General Staff Academy (l'école d'État-major) where he was second in his class, before becoming a lecturer at the War Academy (l'École supérieure de guerre). One of his students at the latter institute was Alfred Dreyfus.
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