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Looting of a church during the Revolution, by Swebach-Desfontaines (c. 1793). The aim of a number of separate policies conducted by various governments of France during the French Revolution ranged from the appropriation by the government of the great landed estates and the large amounts of money held by the Catholic Church to the termination of Christian religious practice and of the religion ...
A Critical Dictionary of the French Revolution. Translated by Goldhammer, Arthur. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-17728-4. Goldstein, Morris (2007). Thus Religion Grows – The Story of Judaism. Pierides Press. ISBN 978-1-4067-7349-1. Kennedy, Emmet (1989). A Cultural History of the French Revolution ...
Jacques René Hébert (French: [ʒak ʁəne ebɛʁ]; 15 November 1757 – 24 March 1794) was a French journalist and leader of the French Revolution. As the founder and editor of the radical newspaper Le Père Duchesne , [ 1 ] he had thousands of followers known as the Hébertists (French Hébertistes ).
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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.
A Critical Dictionary of the French Revolution. pp. 363–369. Schama, Simon (1989). Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution (1989). Slavin, Morris (1994). The Hebertistes to the Guillotine: Anatomy of a "Conspiracy" in Revolutionary France. Louisiana State University Press. ISBN 0-8071-1838-9
French Republican Calendar of 1794, drawn by Philibert-Louis Debucourt. The French Republican calendar (French: calendrier républicain français), also commonly called the French Revolutionary calendar (calendrier révolutionnaire français), was a calendar created and implemented during the French Revolution, and used by the French government for about 12 years from late 1793 to 1805, and ...
The French Revolution had occasioned many radical changes in France, but one of the most fundamental for the hitherto Catholic nation was the official rejection of religion. The first new major organized school of thought emerged under the umbrella name of the Cult of Reason .