l'Affaire Calas (in French) Voltaire's Traité sur la Tolérance à l'occasion de la mort de Jean Calas (in French) Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "The Calas Case" ...

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 Jean Calas. Calas had been tortured to death in 1763, supposedly because he had murdered...

a symbol of the victims of Catholic religious intolerance, along with Jean Calas and Pierre-Paul Sirven, all championed by Voltaire. A statue to de la...

for religious toleration in the form of a five-act tragedy in verse, Jean Calas. In his next work, the injustice of the disgrace cast on a family by the...

Calas is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Jean Calas (1698–1762), Protestant executed for his faith Georges Calas (born 1948), French...

poet and criminal François Villon was subjected to this torture in 1461. Jean Calas suffered this torture before being broken on the wheel in 1762. The true...

most famous trial of the Parlement of Toulouse was the Calas affair. On 9 March 1762, Jean Calas was condemned to death by the Parlement. With the French...

preschools/primary schools: École Jean-Calas and École Florian. A nearby intercommunal school, École Intercommunale Jean de la Fontaine in Prévessin-Moëns...

two-volume illustrated folio paraphrase version based on his manuscript, by Jean de Rély, was printed in Paris in 1487. The first known translation of the...

justice system in cases of judicial error, including the infamous cases of Jean Calas, who was executed (allegedly innocent) and Pierre-Paul Sirven, who was...

(1791), generally recognized as Chénier's masterpiece; Jean Calas, ou l'école des juges ("Jean Calas, or the judges' school") followed in the same year....

scholar at the capital. He is remembered in connection with the case of Jean Calas, by his work Les Toulousaines, ou lettres historiques et apologétiques...

France on top of the donjon of the building. It was in this donjon that Jean Calas, a Protestant victim of a religiously-biased trial, was interrogated....

Callot, 1633 The execution of Louis Dominique Cartouche, 1721 The death of Jean Calas, Toulouse, 1762 The execution of Matthias Klostermayr, 1771 St. Catherine...

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...

Jean Calas, 1763 (Treatise on Toleration In Connection with the Death of Jean Calas) Dictionnaire Philosophique, 1764 (Philosophical Dictionary) Jean-Jacques...

frontispiece of a late 18th-century chapbook edition of Voltaire's The Extraordinary Tragical Fate of Calas, depicting Jean Calas being broken on the wheel...

church in Hartfield, East Sussex, alongside his wife and son. The Case of Jean Calas published by W. Heinemann (1928) The Tichbourne Case (1936) Lies As Allies...

troops are withdrawn from occupied territories. 1762 – French Huguenot Jean Calas, who had been wrongly convicted of killing his son, dies after being tortured...

his denunciation of injustices such as those against Jean Calas, Pierre-Paul Sirven, François-Jean de la Barre and Thomas Arthur, comte de Lally. The Lumières...

writer Voltaire, judges in Paris posthumously exonerate Jean Calas of murdering his son. Calas had been tortured and executed in 1762 on the charge, though...

parliament sentenced Jean Calas to death. The philosopher Voltaire then accused the Parlement of Toulouse of religious intolerance (Calas was a Protestant)...

of the victims of Christian religious intolerance; La Barre along with Jean Calas and Pierre-Paul Sirven, was championed by Voltaire. A second replacement...

Cala en Bosch, also known as Cala'n Bosch or Cala en Bosc, is a beach, marina, hotel, and apartment resort located on the southwest coast of Menorca,...

October 14, 1761 Jean Calas Murder of his son, Marc-Antoine Toulouse, France Death sentence, breaking wheel Executed Yes, posthumously Jean Calas from Toulouse...

treatment of Protestants was met with some outrage over its execution of Jean Calas by breaking at the wheel. In celebration of their victory over a Protestant...

pour les enfans de defunt Jean Calas, marchand a Toulouse, Paris, Merlin, 1765 Mémoire pour dame Anne-Rose Cabibel, veuve Calas, et pour ses enfans, sur...

seize strategic Spanish Empire possessions in the Americas. March 10 – Jean Calas, a 68 year old French merchant convicted unjustly of murdering his son...

unknown) (died 1572), pastor, martyr, (Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre). Jean Calas (1698–1762), martyr. Guido de Brès (died 1567), pastor, martyr of Valenciennes...