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25. _Ibid., pp. 67-72._—The famous case of Marc-Antoine Calas, who

committed suicide by hanging (see Voltaire, “Traité sur le tolérance,” etc., in _Nouv. Philos. Histor._, 1772, xxxii., p. 30). He hung himself to a door. No sign of violence. The city hangman said it was impossible for a man to commit suicide in that way. The father was accused and convicted of homicide. Tardieu shows that the act was a suicide.