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Today In History (June 30 1766)
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Today In History (June 30 1766)
TODAY IN HISTORY
1766: 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 Christian religious procession in Abbeville, France.