{"id":2863,"date":"2014-01-28T19:57:09","date_gmt":"2014-01-29T00:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/?p=2863"},"modified":"2014-01-28T19:57:09","modified_gmt":"2014-01-29T00:57:09","slug":"revolutionary-culture-religion-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/2014\/01\/28\/revolutionary-culture-religion-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Revolutionary Culture & Religion"},"content":{"rendered":"

As the French Revolution began to transition from phase one, the Liberal Revolution, to the Revolution of War, Terror, and the Rise of Republican France, culture was extremely effected. In\u00a0La Marseillaise,\u00a0<\/i>written by laude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle, he uses his song to call all citizens to arms to defend against “The roar of these savage soldiers” as
\n“They come right into our arms,\u00a0To cut the throats of your sons,\u00a0your country.” \u00a0\u00a0La Marseillaise<\/i>,\u00a0<\/em>is still the national Anthem of France, which is a prime example of how the cultural changes in the Revolution have made a lasting impact even to the present day. \u00a0I found the situation in which\u00a0La Marseillaise<\/i>\u00a0<\/em>was written was somewhat similar to that of the\u00a0Star Spangled Banner<\/em>. \u00a0Written in one night, by someone who was not primarily a poet\/song writer (laude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle was a captain of the engineers, and Francis Scott Key was a lawyer). \u00a0Also, neither instance was written specifically to be a national anthem. \u00a0La Marseillaise\u00a0<\/i>was for a banquet at Marseillaise, and Francis Scott Key’s was a simple retelling of what he say aboard a British Vessel.<\/p>\n

Religion also changed dramatically during the revolution. \u00a0Maximilien Robespierre, one of the leaders of the Committee of Public Safety wrote\u00a0The Cult of the Supreme Being,\u00a0<\/em>almost as a new declaration of religion. \u00a0Along with more tame pieces, concerning Monarchical rule and the waste of the clergy, stating “He did not create kings to devour the human race. He did not create priests to harness us, like vile animals, to the chariots of kings and to give to the world examples of baseness, pride, perfidy, avarice, debauchery, and falsehood.” Robespierre also included many radical statements. \u00a0He called for outlawing the traditional calendar, and to replace it with a completely different one. \u00a0This caused extreme confusion within the nation. \u00a0Additionally, he called”\u00a0Republican Frenchmen, it is yours to purify the earth which they have soiled, and to recall to it the justice that they have banished!” \u00a0This is similar the Karl Marx’s final quote in the communist manifesto in which he calls the working class to reclaim the earth from the elite class. \u00a0With the removal of Christianity from France, all religious traditions were deemed hostile to the success of France, causing the populous to be under threat of execution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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