Voltaire, born François-Marie Arouet, was a French Enlightenment writer, who believed in the separation of Church and State and the equality for all religions. Gay wrote of Volataire: “Voltaire was a propagandist, but he liked to lead his campaigns with dramatized, simplified, adapted facts, but always facts” (276). As an Enlightenment writer, Voltaire believed in reason and science as a guide for courts, society, and religion. Voltaire sought the reason behind the masses turning to Calas and his family and why the Catholic Church was more supportive of this factual account of the events that would lead to Calas' death. Voltaire considers the Toulouse festival to be the main source of fanaticism and persecution of Calas. He declares: “What contributed the most to his fate was the approach of this singular festival that the people of Toulouse celebrate each year in memory of the massacre of four thousand Huguenots” (6). Voltaire believed, from his reasoned point of view, that the hype surrounding this matter mainly came from the upcoming festival. This celebration according to Voltaire would elevate the superstitions, hatred and lack of guilt of the masses by condemning Calas to death. Voltaire's personal revulsion at this affair fueled his writings against the French legal system and deepened his search for