Aernoult–Rousset affair

In the Aernoult–Rousset affair, the French Left organized to protest France's North African military prisons and expatriate the body of a conscript who died there in 1909. While the military classified Albert Aernoult's death as a stroke, the witness Émile Rousset claimed that it had been assault by their commanding officers. After the Chamber of Deputies backed the military's account and a war council sentenced Rousset to prison for insubordination, French socialists began to organize to repatriate Aernoult's corpse, free Rousset, and close the Algerian military prisons. The affair demonstrated how the French antimilitarist Left, normally prone to infighting, could unify. Provided by Wikipedia