{"id":1484,"date":"2017-07-11T02:45:21","date_gmt":"2017-07-11T02:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/ushistory1os\/chapter\/primary-source-a-treatise-on-tolerance-1763\/"},"modified":"2017-07-11T02:45:21","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T02:45:21","slug":"primary-source-a-treatise-on-tolerance-1763","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-tc3-ushistory1os\/chapter\/primary-source-a-treatise-on-tolerance-1763\/","title":{"raw":"Primary Source: A Treatise on Tolerance, 1763","rendered":"Primary Source: A Treatise on Tolerance, 1763"},"content":{"raw":"

Click on this link<\/a> to read an excerpt from Voltaire's A Treatise on Tolerance (1763).<\/em><\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n

The\u00a0<\/em>Treatise on Tolerance on the Occasion of the Death of Jean Calas from the Judgment Rendered in Toulouse<\/b>\u00a0(Pieces Originales Concernant la Mort des Sieurs Calas det le Jugement rendu a Toulouse) is a work by French philosopher\u00a0Voltaire, published in 1763, in which he calls for tolerance between religions, and targets religious\u00a0fanaticism, especially that of the\u00a0Jesuits\u00a0(under whom Voltaire received his early education), indicting all\u00a0superstitions\u00a0surrounding religions.<\/em><\/p>\nVoltaire's work follows the trial of\u00a0Jean Calas\u00a0(1698-1762), a Protestant accused of murdering his son Marc-Antoine to prevent his conversion to the Church and executed in\u00a0Toulouse\u00a0on March 10, 1762 despite enduring torture after the prosecution used perjured witnesses, in a case which Voltaire took to display Catholic prejudice and fanaticism. In 1765, after the king fired the chief magistrate and the case was retried by another court, Calas was posthumously exonerated and his family paid 36 thousand francs.<\/em>","rendered":"

Click on this link<\/a> to read an excerpt from Voltaire’s A Treatise on Tolerance (1763).<\/em><\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n

The\u00a0<\/em>Treatise on Tolerance on the Occasion of the Death of Jean Calas from the Judgment Rendered in Toulouse<\/b>\u00a0(Pieces Originales Concernant la Mort des Sieurs Calas det le Jugement rendu a Toulouse) is a work by French philosopher\u00a0Voltaire, published in 1763, in which he calls for tolerance between religions, and targets religious\u00a0fanaticism, especially that of the\u00a0Jesuits\u00a0(under whom Voltaire received his early education), indicting all\u00a0superstitions\u00a0surrounding religions.<\/em><\/p>\n

Voltaire’s work follows the trial of\u00a0Jean Calas\u00a0(1698-1762), a Protestant accused of murdering his son Marc-Antoine to prevent his conversion to the Church and executed in\u00a0Toulouse\u00a0on March 10, 1762 despite enduring torture after the prosecution used perjured witnesses, in a case which Voltaire took to display Catholic prejudice and fanaticism. In 1765, after the king fired the chief magistrate and the case was retried by another court, Calas was posthumously exonerated and his family paid 36 thousand francs.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t

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