This day in French Revolution history

On this day (7 May) in 1794, amid the infamous “Reign of Terror” phase of the French Revolution (La Terreur, September 1793 to July 1794), the National Convention of the First French Republic (République française, 1792–1804) officially replaces the Revolution’s atheistic “Cult of Reason” with a new state religion known as the “Cult of the Supreme Being” (Culte de l’Être suprême). Here is some background via Wikipedia (footnotes and some hyperlinks omitted): “The French Revolution had caused many radical changes in France, but one of the most fundamental … was the official rejection of religion. The first new major organized school of thought emerged under the umbrella name of the Cult of Reason. Advocated by radicals like Jacques Hébert and Antoine-François Momoro, the Cult of Reason distilled a mixture of largely atheistic views into an anthropocentric philosophy. No gods at all were worshipped in the Cult of Reason; the guiding principle was devotion to the abstract concept of…