Discours De Maximilien Robespierre President De La Convention Nationale Au People Reuni Pour La

by French Revolution Maximilien Robespierre

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8vo. Disbound. 6 pages. M & W IV, 29526-40. Item #18583 In an effort to combat atheism Robespierre and others of the National Convention scheduled a Fête de l'Être Suprême on 8 June 1794, the culmination of which was to be the symbolic destruction of the statue of Atheism by fire and the emergence of Wisdom from the remains. Unfortunately the figure of Wisdom was so badly smeared in soot that the audience laughed. This was

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