Fête de l'Etre suprême, by Pierre-Antoine Demachy. Complaints about the "creaking stiffness" of the highly-organized event did not bode well for the success of Robespierre's pet "religion". (Wikimedia Commons) On this day in 1794, French lawyer Maximilien Robespierre proposed an idea for a new state religion in France. Known as the Cult of the Supreme…
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