1 lugl 1766 anni - François-Jean de la Barre, a young French
nobleman, is tortured and beheaded, before
his body is burnt on a pyre, along with a copy of
Voltaire's Dictionnaire philosophique nailed to
his torso, for the crime of not saluting a Roman
Catholic religious procession in Abbeville, and
for other sacrileges, including desecrating a
crucifix