L'AFFAIRE CALAS

The rehabilitation by Voltaire of the memory of the wrongly convicted Protestant Calas is a dramatic incident in French history. Of late years the unjust condemnation of Calas has been often quoted as a parallel to the récent Dreyfus case. See Raoul Allieras Voltaire et V Affaire Calas^ which originally appeared in the Revue de Paris (Jan. 15, 1898), or the more elaborate: Coquerel, yifa» Calas et sa famille»

Page 48* — i. Toulouse, a city in the south of France. 2. Languedoc, province of southern France.

Page 49. — i. Caton; Cato of Utica, who spent his last night reading Plato's PhœdOy and then stabbed himself. When his friends dressed his wounds he tore pff the bandages. The death of Cato has been a famous literary subject.

2. Plutarch, biographer and philosopher, in the first century A.D., author of Lives of Famous Greeks and Romans» " Plutarch's men " are stoics.

Page 50* — I. Montaigne, French philosopher and essayist