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One day, sometime in the eighteenth century, the attention of a certain Frenchman, Francois Marie de Arouet, was directed to a case which first shook a town, then France, and finally Europe: the murder of Jean Calais, a Protestant merchant of Toulouse. The Catholic Church had accused Calais of hanging one of his sons to prevent his becoming a Catholic, “as it was the common practice amongst Protestants. ” Calais was arrested, and the civil magistrates ecclesiastical orders—condemned the old man to the rack, to be broken alive upon the wheel and then to be burned to ashes. This decree was executed on March 9, 1762. F. M. de Arouet dedicated the best part of three years to proving Calas’s complete innocence, which he did. Simultaneously he swore to wage relentless war against a church which was capable of such murderous intolerance. Having coined a slogan, Ecrasez l’infame, he used it in all his books, articles, letters. His one-man campaign eventually contributed, perhaps more than any other, to the overthrow of Catholic encroachment upon civil authority in France, and, indeed, in most of Europe in the decades to come. Francois Marie de Arouet’s other name: Voltaire. One day, also i

Who reads Catholic Power Today?

Author

Avro Manhattan

Published

1967

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Religion, Finance, Political Science