French blasphemer

A young man, who with several others was committed for blasphemy, was lately executed at Abbeville in France, pursuant to his sentence. The crimes alleged against him were, that he had wickedly and impiously passed before the holy sacrament, without taking off his hat, and kneeling; that he had sung two songs full of blasphemy against the holy virgin, the saints, and the sacraments; that he had profaned the sign of the cross, the mystery of the consecration of the wine, the benedictions of the church, &c. for these crimes he had his tongue cut out, his hands and his head cut off, and the whole consumed in a burning pile of wood, with his body, and his ashes scattered in the air. The executioner burnt at the same time the Dictionaire Philosophique.