After a campaign by the writer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voltaire" id="mwSA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Voltaire">Voltaire</a>, judges in Paris posthumously exonerate <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Calas" id="mwSQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Jean Calas">Jean Calas</a> of murdering his son. Calas had been tortured and executed in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1762" id="mwSg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="1762">1762</a> on the charge, though his son may have actually died by suicide.<sup about="#mwt43" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-7"}}' id="cite_ref-7" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./March_9#cite_note-7" id="mwSw" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 7;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwTA">[7]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-7"><cite about="#mwt40" class="citation web cs1" id="CITEREFArmstrong2015">Armstrong, Ken (13 March 2015). <a class="external text" href="https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2015/03/13/broken-on-the-wheel/" id="mwB1M" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">"Broken on the Wheel"</a>. <i id="mwB1Q">The Paris Review</i>. <a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20191123042017/https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2015/03/13/broken-on-the-wheel/" id="mwB1U" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">Archived</a> from the original on 23 November 2019<span class="reference-accessdate" id="mwB1Y">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap" id="mwB1c">24 January</span> 2020</span>.</cite><span about="#mwt40" class="Z3988" id="mwB1g" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=unknown&amp;rft.jtitle=The+Paris+Review&amp;rft.atitle=Broken+on+the+Wheel&amp;rft.date=2015-03-13&amp;rft.aulast=Armstrong&amp;rft.aufirst=Ken&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theparisreview.org%2Fblog%2F2015%2F03%2F13%2Fbroken-on-the-wheel%2F&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMarch+9"></span></span>