Factice Collection Calas Affair Toulouse Languedoc Bibliophily 3 Factums XVIII Voltaire Justice

A factitious collection in its contemporary binding, composed of three factums, all from 1765, concerning the Calas Affair, the most famous legal case of the 18th century in France. The Calas Affair was a French legal case that took place from 1761 to 1765 in Toulouse, in a context of the stifling of Protestantism after the Revocation. It owes its fame to Voltaire's intervention in his Treatise on Tolerance. Jean Calas was a Protestant merchant from Toulouse. His son having been found dead, strangled or hanged according to the doctor present on the scene, he is accused of having murdered him to prevent the young man from converting to Catholicism. This affair is essentially political, rather than revealing the functioning of the royal courts. It is marred by numerous abuses of procedure in the administration of evidence (misuse of the adminicule and the monitoire, among others). Jean Calas, who always claimed his innocence, was finally tortured, strangled and then burned on March 10, 1762. In 1765, the magistrates of the Royal Court restored the widow of Jean Calas to her rights, and rehabilitated the memory of her deceased husband.

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1. Memoir to be consulted, and consultation for the children of the deceased Jean Calas, merchant in Toulouse. Author: Mariette, Pierre (17..-17..; lawyer). Loiseau de Mauléon, Alexandre Jérôme (1728-1771). Élie de Beaumont, Jean-Baptiste-Jacques (1732-1786) Date: 1765 Address: In Paris, at Merlin, bookseller, at the entrance to rue de la Harpe, coming from rue de la Bouclerie. M. DCC. LXV. (From the printing house of P. de Lormel, rue du Foin Saint Jacques) Description: 28 p.; in-8 Notes: At the end: "Deliberated in Paris this 22 January 1765, signed: De Lambon, Mallard, d'Outremenot, Mariette, Gerbier, Legouvé, Loiseau de Mauléon, Elie de Beaumont". - Sig. A8, B4, C2. - Fleuron to the title, banner signed Cotte, woodcuts.

2. Title: Memoir of Mr. François-Alexandre-Gualbert Lavaysse Author: Lavaysse, François Alexandre Gaubert (1741-17..). Date: 1765 Publisher: In Paris: From the printing house of Louis Cellot, rue Dauphine. M. DCC. LXV., 1765 Description: 32 p.; in-8

3. Title: Memoir for Dame Anne-Rose Cabibel, widow Calas & for her children Author: Élie de Beaumont, Jean-Baptiste-Jacques (1732-1786). Date: 1765 Address: [Paris, Louis Cellot, 1765] Description: 94 p; in-8 Contains: Report of the doctors and surgeons of October 14, 1761 Notes: On the referral to the Requests of the Hotel. - Original title. Errata. - Signed: "Me Elie de Beaumont, lawyer, Oyon, attorney". - Address according to the typographic material. - Dated according to the text: p. 92 note 1 it mentions a judgment "of the present month of February 1765". - Sig. A-E8, F7 (1st and 2nd leaves signed AII and A III instead of AI and A II). - Gr.sb headband signed Cotte.