François-Jean de la Barre

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François-Jean Lefebvre de la Barre (French: [də la baʁ]; 12 September 1745 – 1 July 1766) 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.

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