François-Jean Lefebvre de la Barre (12 September 1745 – 1 July 1766) was a young French nobleman. He was tortured and beheaded before his body was burnt on a pyre along with Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary nailed to his torso. La Barre is often said to have been executed for not saluting a Catholic religious procession, though other charges of a similar nature were laid against him.
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12 September 1745 Château de Férolles-en-Brie, France
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1766 (aged 20) Abbeville, Somme, Picardy, France
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Zodiac | Virgo |
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