Episode 4 of 4
First Festival of the Supreme Being
- When
- 8 June 1794
- Where
- Paris
Robespierre declared 20 Prairial Year II (8 June 1794, Pentecost) the first national day of celebration, with future holidays on décadi.
To inaugurate the new state religion, Robespierre declared that 20 Prairial Year II—8 June 1794, also the Christian holiday of Pentecost—would be the first day of national celebration of the Supreme Being. Future republican holidays were to be held on décadi, the days of rest in the new French Republican Calendar. A Festival of the Supreme Being was depicted by Pierre-Antoine Demachy in 1794.
Sources
- Cult of the Supreme Being Wikipedia, revision of 2026-08-19
- Maximilien Robespierre Wikipedia
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