The French parliament on Monday backed a bill that would promote Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish French army captain wrongly convicted of treason in 1894, to the rank of brigadier general, an act of reparation for one of the most notorious acts of antisemitism in the country's history, reports Yahoo! News.
The lower-house National Assembly unanimously approved the legislation, which is seen as a symbolic step in the fight against antisemitism in modern France.
The draft law was put forward by former prime minister Gabriel Attal, who leads President Emmanuel Macron's centrist Renaissance party.
For the promotion to take effect, it still has to be approved by the upper house Senate at a date that has yet to be fixed.
All 197 deputies present voted in favour in the lower house.
The rapporteur of the proposed law, Renaissance lawmaker Charles Sitzenstuhl, said the vote "will go down in history" and called on senators "to quickly adopt the text".