Jean Calas, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Jean Calas

French martyr

Date of Birth: 19-Mar-1698

Place of Birth: Lacabarède, Occitania, France

Date of Death: 10-Mar-1762

Profession: merchant

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Jean Calas (1698 – March 10, 1762) was a merchant living in Toulouse, France, who was tried, 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.