In other churches theatrical spectacles took place....

On Sunday, the 17th of November, all the parish churches of Paris were closed by authority, with three exceptions....

Religion was proscribed, churches closed, Christian ordinances interdicted; the dreary gloom of atheistical despotism overspread the land."-- Jervis, "The Gallican Church and the Revolution," quoted in Larned's "History for Ready Reference," p.1300.The next year, however, Robespierre had a decree passed of which the first article was: "The French people acknowledge the existence of the Supreme Being and the immortality of the soul;" and thereupon the inscriptions _To Reason_ that had been placed upon the French churches were replaced by others reading _To the Supreme Being_.
50--*calm and bright*.

After the downfall of Robespierre in 1794 France gradually worked back to a less hysterical mood.

In October 1795 a new form of government known as the Directory was established, under which the people enjoyed comparative safety at home and developed a remarkable military efficiency against their foreign enemies.
Bonaparte's military genius brought him rapidly to the front in the wars of the Directory.