Farewell to Jean Calas in prison; Les Adieux de Calas, a sa famille / say goodbye to Calas. The French merchant Jean Calas from Toulouse was falsely accused of murder of Marc Antoine in 1761, his 30-year-old son. Calas (Calvinist) would have been killed because they wanted to repent to Catholicism. Calas was put to death in March 1762. His family, about which Voltaire has expanded, is in prison here. Calas is in the middle. A man gets him out of the caps to lead him to the scaffold. To the left of him stand his second son and two daughters. At the door completely left, two militars have a spir
Farewell to Jean Calas in prison; Les Adieux de Calas, a sa famille / say goodbye to Calas. The French merchant Jean Calas from Toulouse was falsely accused of murder of Marc Antoine in 1761, his 30-year-old son. Calas (Calvinist) would have been killed because they wanted to repent to Catholicism. Calas was put to death in March 1762. His family, about which Voltaire has expanded, is in prison here. Calas is in the middle. A man gets him out of the caps to lead him to the scaffold. To the left of him stand his second son and two daughters. At the door completely left, two militars have a spiritual inside. Completely right in a chair Calas' woman who has fainted. Lawyer Gaubert Lavaysse and the maid team try to bring her up to consciousness. On the blade below the show is a text in Dutch in two columns. Following this event, Voltaire wrote his 'Traité de la Tolerance'.
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