RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Jean Calas

1698 - 1762

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Jean Calas (1698 – 10 March 1762) was a merchant living in Toulouse, France, who was tried, judicially tortured, and executed for the murder of his son, despite his protestations of innocence. Calas was a Protestant in an officially Catholic society. Doubts about his guilt were raised by opponents of the Catholic Church and he was exonerated in 1764. In France, he became a symbolic victim of religious intolerance, along with François-Jean de la Barre and Pierre-Paul Sirven. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jean Calas is the 1,364th most popular religious figure (down from 1,289th in 2019), the 2,023rd most popular biography from France (up from 2,073rd in 2019) and the 105th most popular French Religious Figure.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Jean Calas ranks 1,364 out of 3,187. Before him are Kilab ibn Murrah, Leonard of Port Maurice, Angelus of Jerusalem, Procopius of Scythopolis, Daniel the Stylite, and Hudhayfah ibn al-Yaman. After him are Alexander Schmorell, Cristóbal López Romero, Manuel Monteiro de Castro, François de la Chaise, Thomas Christopher Collins, and Johannes Oecolampadius.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1698, Jean Calas ranks 13. Before him are Joseph Süß Oppenheimer, Francesco III d'Este, Duke of Modena, Riccardo Broschi, Charles François de Cisternay du Fay, Johann Jakob Bodmer, and Erik Pontoppidan. After him are Louise Adélaïde d'Orléans, George Browne, François Francoeur, Giacomo Ceruti, Friederike Charlotte of Hesse-Darmstadt, and Pyotr Saltykov. Among people deceased in 1762, Jean Calas ranks 14. Before him are Archduchess Maria Johanna Gabriela of Austria, Shah Waliullah Dehlawi, Francesco Geminiani, Princess Antoinette of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, and Tobias Mayer. After him are Dorothea Erxleben, Françoise-Louise de Warens, Stanisław Poniatowski, Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, Teimuraz II of Kakheti, and Francesco Manfredini.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean Calas ranks 2,023 out of 6,770. Before him are Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac (1597), Jacques Thibaud (1880), Isabella, Countess of Vertus (1348), André Marie Constant Duméril (1774), Paul Poiret (1879), and Francis II, Duke of Lorraine (1572). After him are Paul Pelliot (1878), Paul Andreu (1938), Emmanuel Petit (1970), Mahaut, Countess of Artois (1269), François de la Chaise (1624), and Charles de Freycinet (1828).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In France

Among religious figures born in France, Jean Calas ranks 105. Before him are André Vingt-Trois (1942), Madeleine Sophie Barat (1779), Itta of Metz (592), Odilo of Cluny (961), Colette of Corbie (1381), and Blandina (101). After him are François de la Chaise (1624), Henri Estienne (1528), Peter Nolasco (1180), William de Longchamp (1101), John Eudes (1601), and Marcellin Champagnat (1789).

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