Celebration of cult of supreme

Feast of the Supreme Being.

June 4: Robespierre was popularly elected president of the Convention.

June 8, 1794: The day of the inauguration of the cult of the Supreme Being. Feast of the Supreme Being, conducted by Robespierre.

The Convention pays tribute to the divinity in a ceremony in which Robespierre, as president of the Assembly, acts as pope for the scandal of the sectors supporting atheism and de-Christianization.

Some deputies visibly show annoyance with his behaviour at the Festival.

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