Most Frenchmen now know that the bordereau was a forgery and without any real value. From Wordnik.com. [Oscar Wilde]
In september 1894 a list of French military documents called the bordereau was found by a French agent working in the German embassy. From Wordnik.com. [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference
He wasn't short of money and wasn't entangled with women, two of the most frequent motives for espionage at the time, but his superiors decided that the handwriting on the bordereau was his, and an Alsatian-Jewish scapegoat was convenient. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
He mispronounced quite common words: urticate, salpinx, bordereau. From Wordnik.com. [The Shadow of the Torturer]
Enfin "poser", il n'y avait plus de bordereau pour les depots de cheques. From Wordnik.com. [pinku-tk Diary Entry] Reference
Bartels, who was sedulously studying a long row of figures on a reinsurance bordereau. From Wordnik.com. [White Ashes] Reference
Paty de Clam testified in secret that the handwriting samples matched those of the bordereau. From Wordnik.com. [Emancipation] Reference
He picked up the torn and faded bordereau, and placed it side by side on his desk with the petit bleu. From Wordnik.com. [Emancipation] Reference
Esterhazy was his friend and he had immediately recognized the handwriting on the bordereau as belonging to the major. From Wordnik.com. [Emancipation] Reference
The court-martial convened in secret on January 10 and the next day reached its preplanned conclusion: Esterhazy was not the author of the bordereau. From Wordnik.com. [Emancipation] Reference
When a list of military documents (the bordereau) was intercepted by a secret agent on its way to the German military attaché, the handwriting was determined to be that of Capt. From Wordnik.com. [1890] Reference
Closer inspection of the bordereau would reveal a multiplicity of person-alities inflicted on the documents or document and some prevision of virtual crime or crimes might be made by anyone unwary enough before any suitable occasion for it or them had so far managed to happen along. From Wordnik.com. [Finnegans Wake] Reference
At the time no one even suspected Esterhazy in connection with the bordereau. From Wordnik.com. [Oscar Wilde]
How indignantly he had then denied having ever acknowledged the authorship of the bordereau, and how complacently he now admitted it!. From Wordnik.com. [With Zola in England]
Still, one point is gained; he admits having written the bordereau, and others hereafter will tell us the exact circumstances under which he did so. From Wordnik.com. [With Zola in England]
Picquart stumbled on evidence that the real spy was Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy, a commandant whose handwriting did indeed match that of the bordereau, and who did indeed need money to cover huge debts. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
For a little while Oscar was interested in the Dreyfus case, and especially in the Commandant Esterhazy, who played such a prominent part in it with the infamous bordereau which brought about the conviction of Dreyfus. From Wordnik.com. [Oscar Wilde]
The Commandant had just acknowledged to the 'Times' and the 'Daily Chronicle' that the famous bordereau had been penned by him, and we laughed at the remembrance of his squabbles on this subject with the proprietress of another newspaper. From Wordnik.com. [With Zola in England]
The court-martial decided the bordereau was in Dreyfus’s handwriting. From Wordnik.com. [Emancipation] Reference
The woman worked for the French intelligence services and recognized the paper as an official memorandum, or bordereau, from someone on the French army’s general staff. From Wordnik.com. [Emancipation] Reference
I wrote the bordereau. From Wordnik.com. [Oscar Wilde]
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