MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
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Robespierre’s followers.
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counterrevolutionaries and traitors.
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the sans-culottes and other members of the Paris Commune.
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Austrian prisoners.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Under Robespierre, the Convention pursued a policy of de-Christianization because its members believed that. the sans-culottes and other members of the Paris Commune.
Detailed explanation-2: -They formed a coalition and took up arms against France. the Reign of Terror. Why did the members of the National Convention pursue a policy of de-Christianization? They believed that religion encouraged superstition, instead of reason.
Detailed explanation-3: -From his days as a lawyer, Robespierre believed in the importance of equality before the law as well as the need to have direct elections when selecting officials. Now that the people of France had risen as, more or less, one group against their oppressors, it was vital to keep them united under a strong central power.
Detailed explanation-4: -The National Convention also pursued a policy of dechristianization. – A new calendar was instituted in which years were no longer numbered from the birth of Christ but from September 1792, the first day of the French Republic. – The new calendar also eliminated Sundays and church holidays.