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On 6 May 1794 Robespierre announced the Committee of Public Safety's recognition of the existence of God and the immortality of the human soul. The following day, he delivered a detailed presentation to the Convention on religious and moral principles intertwined with republican ideals, introducing festivals dedicated to the Supreme Being and ...
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 ...
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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.
Sidney's reply to Filmer is an attack on the political system of inheritance, and its substitution with a politics of virtue [...] [15] Sidney took the view in the Discourses that the government of the Rump Parliament , in which he sat,"produced more examples of pure, complete, incorruptible, and invincible virtue than Rome or Greece could ever ...
Journal of the Early Republic, Vol. 18, No. 2. (1998) in JSTOR; Sioli, Marco M. "The Democratic Republican Societies at the End of the Eighteenth Century: the Western Pennsylvania Experience." Pennsylvania History 1993 60(3): 288-304. ISSN 0031-4528; Wilentz, Sean. The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln (2005).
Georges Jacques Danton (French: [ʒɔʁʒ dɑ̃tɔ̃]; 26 October 1759 – 5 April 1794) was a leading figure in the French Revolution.A modest and unknown lawyer on the eve of the Revolution, Danton became a famous orator of the Cordeliers Club and was raised to governmental responsibilities as the French Minister of Justice following the fall of the monarchy on the tenth of August 1792, and ...
A republican empire is a form of government in which a country governed as a republic transitions into an empire. Examples of this process include the First French Republic , which became the First French Empire , [ 1 ] as well as the Dutch Republic , which formed a Dutch Empire by seizing territory from Spain .