Cult of Reason
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The Cult of Reason was France's first established state-sponsored atheistic religion, intended as a replacement for Christianity during the French Revolution. After holding sway for barely a year, in
The Cathedral of Our Lady of Strasbourg turned into a Temple of Reason, depicted in 1794.
Antoine-François Momoro (1756–1794)
Joseph Fouché (1759–1820)
Fête de la Raison ("Festival of Reason"), Notre Dame, Paris.
French First Republic
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In the history of France, the French Republic, retroactively referred to as the First Republic and sometimes referred to in historiography as Revolutionary France, was founded on 21 September 1792 dur
Cult of Reason
…Church was integral among the causes of the French Revolution, and this anti-clericalism solidified into official government policy in 1792 after the First French Republic was declared. Most of the dechristianisation of France was motivated by political and economic concerns, and philosophical alternatives to the Church…
Georges Danton (Cordeliers/The Mountain)
Jean-Marie Roland de la Platière (Girondins)
Étienne Clavière (Girondins)
Maximilien Robespierre (Jacobins/The Mountain)