The Rise of a New Civic Religion

Joseph fouchet was a representative on mission in the early days of the uprising. He had been convinced that the catholic church needed to be eradicated if the revolution was going to survive. Fouchet and his boys went around stripping churches of all religious icons, gathering up whatever valuables they could find then shipping them off to fund the revolutions wars. Even went so far as to remove crosses from cemeteries and ordered that the inscription, death is an eternal sleep be posted outside the newly rationalized burial grounds. In place of all this old superstition, fouchet introduced a new civic religion that would merge seamlessly with the short lived cult of reason.