Hébertist

Hébertist

▪ French political history
French  Hébertiste , also called  Exagéré (“Exaggerator”) 

      any of the group of extremists of the French Revolution, followers of Jacques-René Hébert (Hébert, Jacques-René), who demanded a Revolutionary government that was anti-Christian and dedicated to the eradication of Girondists and other moderates.

      The faction arose during the violence of August 1792, when Louis XVI and his family were abducted from the Tuileries and imprisoned in the Temple. In the ensuing autumn the Hébertists had the cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris turned into a Temple of Reason and had some 2,000 other churches converted to the worship of Reason. They favoured the execution of Louis XVI in January 1793 and the Reign of Terror; but, once the Revolutionary government of Maximilien Robespierre and the Committee of Public Safety was fully in power, it found the rebellious Hébertists too threatening. Hébert and 17 of his friends were at last arrested, brought to trial, convicted of conspiracy, and guillotined on March 24, 1794. The movement managed weakly to survive as Hébert's disciples continued to urge a revolution in France's religious life.

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