1st Edition
The Cult of the Supreme Being and the Pursuit of a Republic of Virtue in the French Revolution
Introduction
Chapter 1
The Cult of the Supreme Being in waiting
Chapter 2
The Committee of Public Safety versus the dechristianiser
Chapter 3
The décadaire cult and the Cult of the Supreme Being within the Cult of Reason
Chapter 4
The elimination of the ‘faction leaders’ and the official launch of the Cult of the
Supreme Being
Chapter 5
The responses to the Report and Law of 18 Floréal
Chapter 6
The Festival of the Supreme Being and Nature
Chapter 7
The Cult of the Supreme being in practice
Chapter 8
The road to Thermidor
Epilogue
Deism and the décadaire cult till the Concordat of Year IX
Annex
Archival Sources
Biography
John Whitworth is a former college lecturer and visiting university lecturer. His research interest is the French Revolution. He lived in France for many years and gained a PhD at the University of Paris-I Pantheon-Sorbonne in 1992.
