18th-century French Protestant who was wrongly tortured and executed
Jean Calas (1698–1762)
Jean Calas (1698 – 10 March 1762) was a merchant living in Toulouse, France, who was tried, tortured and executed for the murder of his son, despite his protestations of innocence. Calas was a Protestant in an officially Catholic society. Doubts about his guilt were raised by opponents of the Catholic Church and he was exonerated in 1764. In France, he became a symbolic victim of religious intolerance, along with François-Jean de la Barre and Pierre-Paul Sirven.[1]
^ See Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Calas, Jean" . Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
with the Death of JeanCalas Despite JeanCalas claiming that the death was a suicide, and the testimony of Jeanne Viguière, Calas' Catholic governess...
Church. Calas was executed in Toulouse on March 10, 1762, after being tortured; he never confessed to the crime that completely lacked evidence. Calas was...
unjustly persecuted individuals, most famously the Huguenot merchant JeanCalas. Calas had been tortured to death in 1763, supposedly because he had murdered...
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justice system in cases of judicial error, including the infamous cases of JeanCalas, who was executed (allegedly innocent) and Pierre-Paul Sirven, who was...
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fueled by Calas' son conversion to Catholicism. David de Beaudrige, who was in charge of the case, upon hearing this rumour, had the Calas family arrested...
France on top of the donjon of the building. It was in this donjon that JeanCalas, a Protestant victim of a religiously-biased trial, was interrogated....
frontispiece of a late 18th-century chapbook edition of Voltaire's The Extraordinary Tragical Fate of Calas, depicting JeanCalas being broken on the wheel...
troops are withdrawn from occupied territories. 1762 – French Huguenot JeanCalas, who had been wrongly convicted of killing his son, dies after being tortured...
writer Voltaire, judges in Paris posthumously exonerate JeanCalas of murdering his son. Calas had been tortured and executed in 1762 on the charge, though...
of the victims of Christian religious intolerance; La Barre along with JeanCalas and Pierre-Paul Sirven, was championed by Voltaire. A second replacement...
parliament sentenced JeanCalas to death. The philosopher Voltaire then accused the Parlement of Toulouse of religious intolerance (Calas was a Protestant)...
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writer Voltaire, judges in Paris posthumously exonerate JeanCalas of murdering his son. Calas had been tortured and executed in 1762 on the charge, though...
seize strategic Spanish Empire possessions in the Americas. March 10 – JeanCalas, a 68 year old French merchant convicted unjustly of murdering his son...
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