<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/François-Jean_de_la_Barre" id="mwbQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="François-Jean de la Barre">François-Jean de la Barre</a>, a young French nobleman, is tortured and beheaded before his body is burnt on a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyre" id="mwbg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Pyre">pyre</a> along with a copy of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voltaire" id="mwbw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Voltaire">Voltaire</a>'s <i id="mwcA"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictionnaire_philosophique" id="mwcQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Dictionnaire philosophique">Dictionnaire philosophique</a></i> nailed to his torso for the crime of not saluting a <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Catholic" id="mwcg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Roman Catholic">Roman Catholic</a> religious procession in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbeville" id="mwcw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Abbeville">Abbeville</a>, France.