Jean Calas

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.

[1] See Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Calas, Jean" . Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.

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