Callet, Pierre Auguste

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Callet, Pierre Auguste (Born 1811)

Callet was a French politician and the editor of the Gazette until 1840.

At the 1851 coup, he took refuge in Belgium, returned to France, was then imprisoned for writing against the Empire.

In 1871 he was again elected representative for the department of the Loire.

His chief freethought work is L’Enfer (1861), an attack upon the Christian doctrine of Hell.

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