Voltaire et l'affaire Calas (2007)
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Claude Rich, Barbara Schulz, François Germond, Carlo Brandt, Pierre Mifsud, Pascale Rocard
In Toulouse in 1761, Marc-Antoine Calas is found strangled in his family home, and his Calvinist father is accused of killing him to prevent his conversion to Catholicism.
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In Toulouse in 1761, Marc-Antoine Calas is found strangled in the family home. His father, Jean Calas, a Calvinist, is accused of killing him to prevent him from converting to Catholicism.
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In Toulouse, in 1761, Marc-Antoine Calas is found strangled to death in the family home. His father, the Calvinist Jean Calas, is unjustly accused of killing him to prevent him from converting to Catholicism and is sentenced to death. He is to be broken on the wheel, strangled, and burned. Voltaire will turn this “news item” into a symbol of intolerance and fanaticism. This trial will lead to his famous Treatise on Tolerance, published in 1763.
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