1794Robespierre Leads Festival of the Supreme Being, Inciting Discontent

June 8: Festival of the Supreme Being, conducted by Robespie...
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🗣️ Robespierre Condemns the Enragés in the National Convention

June 26; Robespierre denounces the enragés before the convention.
RobespierreEnragésNational ConventionFactionalismPolitical OppositionFrench RevolutionRadicalsPolitical DiscourseDantonists

🔥 Robespierre Leads Festival of the Supreme Being, Inciting Discontent

June 8: Festival of the Supreme Being, conducted by Robespierre. Some deputies visibly show annoyance with his behavior at the Festival.
Robespierre Leads Festival of the Supreme Being, Inciting Discontent (1794)
French RevolutionRobespierreCult of the Supreme BeingFestivalReligious PolicyDeismRepublicPolitical OppositionPublic Ceremony

🙏 Robespierre Establishes Cult of the Supreme Being

May 7: Robespierre asks the convention to decree "that the French people recognize the existence of a Supreme Being and the immortality of the soul", and to organize celebrations of the new cult.
RobespierreCult of the Supreme BeingDeismFrench RevolutionReligionThe TerrorCivic ReligionRevolutionary CalendarSecularism