François-Jean de la Barre
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François-Jean de la Barre
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François-Jean Lefebvre de la Barre was a 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. In France, Lefebvre de la Barre is widely regarded a symbol of the victims of Catholic religious intolerance, along with Jean Calas and Pierre-Paul Si
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Frenchman executed for blasphemy and sacrilege
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois-Jean_de_la_Barre
date created:
2004-04-23T16:32:31Z
date modified:
2024-09-03T03:47:55Z
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