Farewell to Jean Calas in prison, Christian Friedrich Fritzsch, 1769 print The French merchant Jean Calas from Toulouse was falsely accused of murder of Marc Antoine, his 30-year-old son in 1761. Calas (Calvinist) is said to have killed his son because he wanted to convert to Catholicism. Calas was put to death in March 1762. His family, about which Voltaire took care of, is in prison here. Calas itself is in the middle. A man takes him out of the buoys to lead him to the scaffold. His second son and two daughters are left. At the door, two militars leave a spiritual inside. On the far right s
Farewell to Jean Calas in prison, Christian Friedrich Fritzsch, 1769 print The French merchant Jean Calas from Toulouse was falsely accused of murder of Marc Antoine, his 30-year-old son in 1761. Calas (Calvinist) is said to have killed his son because he wanted to convert to Catholicism. Calas was put to death in March 1762. His family, about which Voltaire took care of, is in prison here. Calas itself is in the middle. A man takes him out of the buoys to lead him to the scaffold. His second son and two daughters are left. At the door, two militars leave a spiritual inside. On the far right sits in a Calas' woman who fainted. Lawyer Gaubert Lavaysse and the maid try to bring her back to consciousness. On the magazine under the show there is a text in Dutch in two columns. Following this event, Voltaire wrote his 'Traité de la Tolerance'. Amsterdam paper etching / letterpress printing historical persons. prisoner in cell or locked place
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