Voltaire : a lecture by Ingersoll Robert Green 1833-1899

Author:Ingersoll, Robert Green, 1833-1899
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: New York : C. P. Farrell
Published: 1895-11-21T05:00:00+00:00

In 1765, at the town of Abbeville, an old wooden cross on a bridge had been mutilated—whittled with a knife — a terrible crime. Sticks, when crossing each other, were far more sacred than flesh and blood. Two young men were suspected— the Chevalier de la Barre and D'Etallonde. D'Etallonde fled to Prussia and enlisted as a common soldier.

La Barre remained and stood his trial.

He was convicted without the slightest evidence, and he and D'Etallonde were both sentenced :

First, to endure the torture, ordinary and extraordinary.

Second, to have their tongues torn out by the roots with pincers of iron.

Third, to have their right hands cut off at the door of the church.

Fourth, to be bound to stakes by chains of iron and burned to death by a slow fire.

" Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive trios who trespass against us."

Remembering this, the Judges mitigated the sentence by providing that their heads should be cut off before their bodies were given to the flames.

The case was appealed to Paris; heard by a

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