With the Cult of the Supreme Being, Festivals of Reason, Revolutionary Calendar, and so on. Basically, Robespierre's De Christianised vision of a Republic of Virtue. How could there be a Point of Diversion which could make this work for any length of time, and have a reasonably large following (as in people who believe in it, rather than Sans Culotte children handed bunches of flowers, and a handful of senior Revolutionary figures)?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximilien_Robespierre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult_of_the_supreme_being
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_revolutionary_calendar
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_virtue
A tricky one, but I'm sure that there could be a way. Preferably with France being, at some point in its history, Christian (so, please, no Gallic chieftans coincidentally coming up with this out of nowhere just as Julius Caesar enters the fray...)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximilien_Robespierre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult_of_the_supreme_being
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_revolutionary_calendar
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_virtue
A tricky one, but I'm sure that there could be a way. Preferably with France being, at some point in its history, Christian (so, please, no Gallic chieftans coincidentally coming up with this out of nowhere just as Julius Caesar enters the fray...)