Toleration and other essays · Voltaire
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The second case is that of Prince Hermenegild. He rebelled against his father, the king, gave him battle (in 584), and was beaten and killed by an officer. As his father was an Arian, he was regarded as a martyr. [4] Voltaire nobly conceals his work. It was he who, from his exile near Geneva, sent for young Calas, made searching inquiries in Toulouse, and instructed the Parisian lawyers to appeal. He enlisted the interest of English and French visitors at Geneva, and there was “a rivalry in generosity between the two nations.” After a long struggle with the Toulouse authorities the sentence was reversed at Paris amid general enthusiasm. The King very generously pensioned the widow and the other victims.--J. M. [5] Thanks to Voltaire and to the progress of Rationalism at Paris, she was received with the greatest enthusiasm and generosity.--J. M. [6] In ancient Rome the _devoti_ were those who devoted themselves to the good of the Republic. [7] The Catholic Church did not discover the infallibility of the Pope until 1870, since which date his lips have remained, officially, closed.--J. M. [8] A thrust at the Jesuits.--J. M. [9] The Catholic League for the suppression of Protestantism in France, in the second half of the sixteenth century, led to much war and bloodshed.--J. M. [10] In his treatise _Dieu et les Hommes_ Voltaire, after a very incomplete survey of history, puts the number of victims of religious wars and quarrels at 9,468,800.--J. M.
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