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A Treatise on Religious Toleration. Occasioned by the execution of the unfortunate John Calas, unjustly condemned and broken upon the wheel at Toulouse, for the supposed murder of his own son: Translated from the French… by the translator of Eloisa, etc.

1764 Subjects: Religion Forms: Essays Translation Status: Integral English London URL

Authors of source text

François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire

Contributions

William Kenrick
translator
T. Becket and P.A. de Hondt
publisher

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Traité sur la tolérance: A l'occasion de la mort de Jean Calas has translation

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Notes

Other translations published included an annotated version by Tobias Smollett, T. Franklin and others (1764, Dublin: J. Exshaw), and a later compilation by David Williams, that also included 'The ignorant philosopher' and 'A commentary on Beccaria’s Treatise on crimes and punishments' (1779, Fielding and Walker).