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The Cult of the Supreme Being (French: Culte de l'Être suprême) [note 1] was a form of deism established by Maximilien Robespierre during the French Revolution as the intended state religion of France and a replacement for its rival, the Cult of Reason, and of Roman Catholicism.
The Cult of Reason (French: Culte de la Raison) [note 1] was France's first established state-sponsored atheistic religion, intended as a replacement for Roman Catholicism during the French Revolution. After holding sway for barely a year, in 1794 it was officially replaced by the rival deistic Cult of the Supreme Being, promoted by Robespierre.
Joseph Brugerette, Les cré religieuses de la revolution (Paris 1904): Moncure Conway, The Centenary of Theophilanthropy. The Open Court, (1897) Giambattista Ferrero, Disamina Filosofica de Dommi e della Morale Religiosa de Teofilantropi (Turin 1798). Albert Mathiez, La Théophilanthropie et le culte decadaire, 1796-1801 (Paris 1903);
Jacques-René Hébert Georges Danton. Robespierre did not reappear in the National Convention until 7 May (18 Floréal). For this day he had planned a speech addressing the relationship between religion, morality, and the republican principles; and to establish the Cult of the Supreme Being in place of the Cult of Reason promoted by de-Christianizers like the Hébertists. [14]
A Republican inscription on a former church: "Temple of reason and philosophy", Saint Martin, Ivry-La-Bataille. A Temple of Reason (French: Temple de la Raison) was, during the French Revolution, a state atheist temple for a new belief system created to replace Christianity: the Cult of Reason, which was based on the ideals of reason, virtue, and liberty.
Born in Paris, Collot left his home in the rue St. Jacques in his teens to join the travelling theatres of provincial France.His moderately successful career as an actor, supplemented by a vigorous outpouring of works for the stage, took him from Bordeaux in the south of France to Nantes in the west and Lille in the north and even into the Dutch Republic, where he met his wife.
The Decadary Cult (French: Culte décadaire), [1] also called Tenth-day Cult, was a semi-official religion of France during the Directory period of the French Revolution, intended as a dechristianised replacement of the Christian Sunday worship with a quasi-religious festival on the day of rest in the 10-day week of the French Republican ...
Cult of the Supreme Being (7 May 1794 – 28 July 1794) Decadary Cult ... République française), was founded on 21 September 1792 during the French Revolution.