FRENCH REVOLUTION
FRANCE UNDER NAPOLEON
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declared new nationalholidays celebrating great French cuisine.
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ordered the building ofseveral new libraries and universities, even though the treasury was empty.
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pursued a policy of dechristianization, going sofar as to adopt a new calendar.
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drafted yet another Constitution to reflect theideas of the Enlightenment.
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Detailed explanation-1: -In its attempts to create a new order that reflected its belief in reason, the National Convention pursued a policy of dechristianization, going so far as to adopt a new calendar.
Detailed explanation-2: -Religious practice was outlawed and replaced with the cult of the Supreme Being, a deist state religion. The program of dechristianization waged against the Christian people of France increased in intensity with the enactment of the Law of 17 September 1793, also known as the Law of Suspects.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen came into existence in the summer of 1789, born of an idea of the Constituent Assembly, which was formed by the assembly of the Estates General to draft a new Constitution, and precede it with a declaration of principles.
Detailed explanation-4: -The National Convention and the French Republic The first action of the convention, on September 21, 1792, was to abolish the monarchy. The next day, the Republic of France was founded.