The Calas Affair

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The Calas Affair
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The Calas Affair

Voltaire
Edition year 1994
Binding parchment
Translator Brian Masters
Weight 0.75 Kg
Pages 148
Dimensions 24 × 14.4 cm

Edition details

The Calas Affair, by Voltaire, translated and edited by Brian Masters, with eighteen pages of engravings, etchings and documents. Full grey vegetable parchment with a contemporary etching in red, dark red endleaves. Dark red slipcase. 24 x 14.4 cm. 148 pp.

About the book

The Calas Affair recounts the notorious eighteenth-century case of Jean Calas, a French Protestant merchant accused of murdering his son because the young man supposedly wished to convert to Catholicism. Calas was convicted and brutally executed, but serious doubts about the evidence led Voltaire to campaign for his rehabilitation. The case became a powerful symbol of religious intolerance and judicial injustice and played an important role in Enlightenment arguments for reason, tolerance and legal reform.

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