공화력 2년 최고존재의 축제의 정치적 목적과 성격

The Political purpose and the meaning of the Festival of Supreme-Being(Year II)

On 20 prairial Year II(1973), Robespierre celebrated the Festival of Supreme-Being. Its political purpose was the exclusion of the Festival of the Reason that the Sans Culottes were celebrating and the establishment of the foundation of the Republic by achieving a social unity. That purpose seemed to be achieved by David who planned the Festival of the Supreme-Being. He emphasized the harmony and the benefits of the nature in it. But It could not solve a political conflict, and in the end failed for the indifference of the people. Because It did not arouse people s participation by emphasizing only a political purpose.