) "National Festivals form an essential part of public
education.... A system of national festivals is the most powerful
means of regeneration."
[97] Ibid., XXXVIII., 335. Marat's heart, placed on a table in the
Cord?liers Club, was an object of religious reverence. - (Gr?goire,
"M?moires," I., 341.) "In some schools the pupils were obliged to make
the sign of the cross at the names of Marat, Lazowski, etc."
[98] Comte de Martel, "?tude sur Fouch?," 137. F?te at Nevers, on the
inaguration of a bust of Brutus. - Ibid., 222, civic festival at
Nevers in honor of valor and morals. - Dauban, "Paris en 1794."
Programme of the f?te of the supreme Being at Sceaux.
[99] An expression by Rabaut Saint-Etienne.
[100] Ibid., XXXII., 373 (Report by Robespierre, Flor?al 15, year II.)
- Danton had expressed precisely the same opinion, supported by the
same arguments, at the meeting of Frimaire 22, year II. (Moniteur,
XVIII, 654.) "Children first belong to the Republic before belonging
to their parents. Who will assure me that these children, inspired by
parental egoism, will not become dangerous to the Republic? What do we
care for the ideas of an individual alongside of national ideas? .
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