2-368-306 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Festival of Reason, Paris, 1793 (1882-1884). The Festival of Reason was staged on 10th November (20 Brumaire) 1793, with ceremonies devised and organised by Pierre-Gaspard Chaumette, a revolutionary politician who believed that Christianity was indistinguishable from counter-revolution. The Cult of Reason centered upon a young woman designated the Goddess of Reason. The following year Chaumette became one of the many victims of Maximilien Robespierre's Reign of Terror. A print from La France et les Français à Travers les Siècles, Volume III, F Roy editor, A Challamel, Saint-Antoine, 1882-1884.