Jean Calas
1698 – 1762
French

Merchant. He was falsely accused of killing his son for religious reasons and executed.

Contemporaries
1717–1783Jean d'Alembert
1754–1838Charles Talleyrand
1675–1755Louis Saint-Simon
1760–1825Claude Saint-Simon
1740–1814Marquis de Sade
1758–1794Maximilien Robespierre
1626–1700Armand Rancé
1721–1764Jeanne Pompadour
1689–1755Charles Montesquieu
1743–1793Jean Marat
1638–1715Louis XIV
1715–1771Claude-Adrien Helvétius
1647–1706Pierre Bayle
1760–1797François-Noël Babeuf