CALAS (Affaire)

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CALAS (Affaire)
Sovereign judgment of the ordinary requests of the King's Hotel, which discharges Anne-Rose Cabibel, widow of Jean Calas, merchant in Toulouse; Jean-Pierre Calas, her son; Jeanne Viguière, Daughter of service at the aforementioned Calas; Alexandre-François Gualbert Lavaysse: and the memory of the aforementioned deceased Jean Calas, of the accusation against them. From March 9, 1765. Paris, De l'Imprimerie royale, 1765. Broadside (about 880 x 550 mm), in a modern cardboard frame. Extremely rare broadside proclaiming the rehabilitation of Jean Calas, victim of one of the most famous and sad judicial cases of the eighteenth century. Text printed on four columns. Let us recall that Jean Calas, a merchant from Toulouse of Protestant faith, had been accused of having murdered one of his sons, Marc-Antoine, to prevent the latter from converting to Catholicism. Condemned to death on March 9, 1762, at the end of a trial marred by numerous abuses of procedure, Jean Calas endured the ordeal of the wheel the next day and his body was thrown into the fire. His rehabilitation, partly obtained thanks to the action of Voltaire and his famous Treatise on Tolerance (1763), took place on March 9, 1765, three years to the day after the announcement of his conviction. The judgment was immediately printed at the Imprimerie Royale and published in all formats, says Athanase Coquerel in Jean Calas et sa famille, étude historique d'après les documents originaux, 1858, p. 274. It is presented here in the monumental broadsheet format, intended to be displayed directly in the public square; a format that could not be more symbolic for celebrating a victory over intolerance and religious fanaticism. Traces of folds.
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