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Tango01 | 23 Aug 2018 9:38 p.m. PST |
…. short-lived new state religión. "The exuberance of revolutionary passion and the satisfying sensation of smashing an antique shop to pieces with a sledgehammer did naturally not make a stop at religious affectivities during the first years of the French Revolution. Quite the reverse. Voltaire's words "écrasez l'infâme", crush the despicable church, uttered on the eve of the storming of the Bastille, were taken quite literally. Religious services were forbidden and the "Cult of Reason" was promoted by the Hébertists, those radical elements of the "abandon all superstitions"-persuasion among the revolutionaries. Antoine-François Momoro, who had already framed the revolution's motto of Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité, obviously a man of clear words, laid down: "Liberty, reason, truth are only abstract beings. They are not gods, for properly speaking, they are part of ourselves." Anacharsis Clootz added that there would be indeed only one god henceforward, "Le Peuple", the people. The Hébertists' idea of an atheistic ersatz-religion culminated in the nationwide Fête de la Raison on 20 Brumaire, Year II (10 November 1793), churches all over France had already been transformed into Temples of Reason and now Notre Dame in Paris received its very own altar to Liberty with a half-dressed Madame Momoro sitting upon it during the festival as personification of the said capacity to make sense of things and was, according to Thomas Carlyle "one of the best Goddesses of Reason; though her teeth were a little defective." However, the Cult of Reason came to an end when all the Hébertists received an appointment with Madame Guillotine in March 1794…." Main page link Amicalement Armand
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