The French Revolution was also a social revolution, and the largest social revolution,

and the largest social institution in France at the time was the Catholic Church.

At the height of the Catholic Church.

At the height of the revolution,

Revolutionaries attempted to replace the church

with a new state religion, which was quite unlike

anything else the world had ever seen before or since.

Learn more about the cult of reason

and the attempts of revolutionary France

to create a new state religion that really wasn't a religion at all

on this episode of Everything Everywhere daily. To understand how the cult of reason came about, it's necessary to understand the conditions in pre-revolution

France. The French Revolution was a lot more than beheading Louis the 16th and Marie

Antoinette. The French Revolution was a revolution against the entire French system, which was known as the Ancian regime.

The Ancian regime included not just the monarchy, but the nobility, and perhaps most importantly, the Catholic Church.

The ASEAN regime established what were known as estates, which were broad categories of social

and civil hierarchy under which society was organized.

The first estate was the church. the second estate was the nobility, and the

third estate were peasants and common people. Despite some activity early in the

Protestant Reformation, France remained an overwhelmingly Catholic country. the Protestant

reformation, France remained an overwhelmingly Catholic country.

The edict of knots in 1685 codified Catholicism

not just as the state religion, but as the only religion allowed in the country.

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