condemning him to be loaded with chains, placed upon a pyre, to be there strangled, and then burned. In vain the clergy petitioned for a respite; Antoine was executed the same day. References Bernard Lescaze, La confession de foi de Nicolas Antoine (1632) dans le Bulletin de la Société d'histoire et d'archéologie de Genève, vol. 14 (1970), p. 277-323. "Antoine Nicolas" at jewishencyclopedia.com 1600s births 1632 deaths 17th-century converts to Judaism People from Briey Converts to Judaism from Calvinism Executed people from the Republic of Geneva Executed French people People executed for heresy 17th-century French Jews Jewish martyrs Executed people from Lorraine Alumni of the Athénée de Luxembourg People executed by Switzerland by burning Crypto-Jews