Jean Calas

(1698-1762)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Calas, Jean, 1698-1762 LBT ID: JeCalas1762 VIAF ID: 32790468 LOC ID: n89103482	B/BAP: 1698 DIED: 1762-03-10
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A Protestant merchant of Toulouse brutally executed on the false charge that he had intended to kill his son for converting to Catholicism. He was defended by Voltaire.
REFERENCES TO Jean Calas: Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859, “Death and Funeral of the late Mr. Southey” in The Examiner (13 April 1817) 236-37 Verse 2: p. 237a p. 237a