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![Jean Calas Bids Farewell To His Family Before His Execution. After The Painting By Daniel Nicholas Chodowiecki. Jean Calas, 1698 ? PosterPrint - Item # VARDPI2334268 - Posterazzi Jean Calas Bids Farewell To His Family Before His Execution. After The Painting By Daniel Nicholas Chodowiecki. Jean Calas, 1698 ? PosterPrint - Item # VARDPI2334268 - Posterazzi](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-yzgoj/images/stencil/1280x1280/products/1465022/4287513/apiuovfrd__55823.1626608926.jpg?c=2)
Jean Calas Bids Farewell To His Family Before His Execution. After The Painting By Daniel Nicholas Chodowiecki. Jean Calas, 1698 ? PosterPrint - Item # VARDPI2334268 - Posterazzi
![The family of Jean Calas sit listening to Alexandre Lavaysse reading a letter from Calas. Engraving by Peter Gleich after L.C. de Carmontelle. | Wellcome Collection The family of Jean Calas sit listening to Alexandre Lavaysse reading a letter from Calas. Engraving by Peter Gleich after L.C. de Carmontelle. | Wellcome Collection](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/V0041234/full/300,/0/default.jpg)