What became of the French Revolutionary Religion and Calendar?
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Religion:
Based on Carlyle's accounts, the French foray into an organized from of Deism was essentially stillborn. In Chapter 3.6.IV Carlyle writes the following:
But on the day they call Decadi, New-Sabbath, 20 Prairial, 8th June (1794) by old style....his day, if it please Heaven, we are to have, on improved Anti-Chaumette principles: a New Religion. Catholicism being burned out, and Reason-worship guillotined, was there not need of one? Incorruptible Robespierre,not unlike the Ancients, as Legislator of a free people will now also be Priest and Prophet. He has donned his sky-blue coat,made for the occasion; white silk waistcoat embroidered with silver, black silk breeches, white stockings, shoe-buckles of gold. He is President of the Convention; he has made the Convention decree, so they name it, decreter the ‘Existence of the Supreme Being,’
Robespierre also become a sort of High Priest and Prophet of his new founded religion. (He had apparently gone quite mad by this point...)
But there was opposition to Robespierre's initiatives among the soon-to-be Thermidorians, who viewed the idea as just more of his affectations and attempts at grabbing power.
Vanish, thou and it!—”Avec ton Etre Supreme,” said Billaud, tu commences m’embeter: With thy Etre Supreme thou beginnest to be a bore to me.” (Supra)
The whole thing never really caught on, and Robespierre was guillotined before a second "Feast of the Supreme Being" was ever implemented. All memory of it was wiped away in the period of the Thermidorian Reaction.
Calendar:
See the In the French Republican calendar: were Quintidis holidays? and the accepted answer there:
People didn't like the new calender, because it was less free time for them. This was remarked by officials and they added an additional half free day on quintidis.
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Napoleon abolished the revolutionary calendar in 1805. It was never very popular. Catholics disliked having their saints' days dropped, and having a day of rest every 10 days instead of every seven probably made it a tough sell.
The Cult of the Supreme Being never caught on. Much of France's population remained Catholic during this time, and many of the reforms introduced by the revolutionary government were not broadly supported. Christian worship was gradually restored as the Revolution ran its course, and then in 1801 Napoleon signed a Concordat with the Pope, restoring some ties to the Catholic Church while also granting freedom of worship for Protestants and Jews.
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