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Jean Calas
(1698-1762)
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LOC:    Calas, Jean, 1698-1762
LBT ID: JeCalas1762    VIAF ID: 32790468    LOC ID: n89103482		B/BAP:   1698
DIED:   1762-03-10
SOURCES: Wikipedia; Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
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.
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