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lmao people on twittter dont even KNOW. They do not get it.
the seeds have been planted though!
hopefully they're thinking about the Festival of the Supreme Being now. I know I am
Anonymous asked:
favorite moments in the French revolution?
Thanks for the ask!
There's a lot of them! At the risk of being the sort of person Žižek calls out for wanting '1789 without 1793', a lot of my favourite moments come from the early days of the revolution.
- Camille's passionate aux armes! speech at Palais Royal always makes the top of my list. I'm interested in the power of words, both from the literary/philosophical perspective and as a debater, so this moment feels right up my alley. There's just something about him being able to get over his stammer in the heat of the moment and inspire the crowd...
2. Second is probably the Women's March on Versailles! I think it really highlights just how important women (and mostly working-class women in this case!) were as a political force. This is something that people often forget, thinking that just because women didn't have political rights in the modern sense it meant that they had no influence on politics whatsoever. Events like this prove that this was hardly the case.
3. To move on from 1789, I am also fascinated by the merging of the revolution and religion. That's why I'm interested in the revolutionary festivals, like the Festival of the Supreme Being. (It gets such a bad reputation in a lot of historical sources, but if you look at the Catholic festivals which this was supposed to be an answer to... don't tell me they often didn't feel just as extra).
But what I find most interesting is how a lot of secular figures basically achieved the status of a saint in revolutionary France. Case in point: Marat (re: David's painting), Voltaire and - sigh - yes, Rousseau.
Just look at Rousseau's provisional mausoleum from 1794, in which he was buried before they moved his remains to the Panthéon:
fun fact - it's also currently my laptop lock screen. Don't ask why, I try not to over-analyse it.
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what charms me about the festival of the supreme being is that it sounds so incredibly dorky. but it sounds like people had a good time except for the #haters and losers. well and the atheists
in fairness seeing something large get recreationally burned down is always cool
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The 20th of Prairial (8th June) was the Festival of the Supreme Being. Robespierre was chosen unanimously by his colleagues in the Convention to preside over the ceremonies. As far as his friends were concerned, it was an honour he deserved. This enabled others to shake off on to him the responsibility for a demonstration of which they did not approve.
Jean Matrat, Robespierre: The Tyranny of the Majority
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You know, with it being Pride Month and all? Citizens, cast your votes!
This could help with the sash around waist or sash over the shoulder dilemma! I humbly propose tricolour over shoulder and pride around waist (or the other way around)
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OMSB! (oh my Supreme Being) happy festival everyone! I spinned too many times bc everything is a ✨️supreme✨️ gift on this! The first time I got 🥖
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Robespierre gave the following speech on the Supreme Being on 7 May 1794. He punctuated it with the proposal of legislation which scheduled a festival in the Being’s honor for 8 June (20 Prairial).
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The reactions to the festival highlight two of the myths about these months: first, that this was a [national] dictatorship devoid of popular support; and second, that the deputies had been intimidated into silenced by a tyrant. The Cult of the Supreme Being had the uncanny property of appealing both to popular elements of Catholocism (especially at a time when most of the clergy had deserted the people) and those who wanted a Cult of Reason and Nature. The crowds were vast: the promise of renewed harmony seemed to have struck a deep chord. An estimated half a million people - most of the population of Paris - turned out for the celebration, but the sneers and innuendos from some of them were audible. Certain deputies were irritated by Robespierre’s pre-eminence and said so… Certainly the pre-eminent role that Robespierre played at the festival was a serious miscalculation.
Peter McPhee, Robespierre: A Revolutionary Life
Source: timesillustrated.com
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Tricolour fleurette worn by Robespierre during a session of the Jacobins preparatory to the Festival of the Supreme Being, Musée Carnavalet.
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Wow, you're getting a copy of The Social Contract signed by Robespierre!
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OMG THIS ONE IS TOTALLY THE BEST :_DD
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