{"id":10741,"date":"2025-09-22T07:34:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T05:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/mot-qui-tue\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T07:34:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T05:34:08","slug":"mot-qui-tue","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/mot-qui-tue\/","title":{"rendered":"mot qui tue"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u00c7a se discute, tout comme le \u201c\u00a0mot chic et choc\u00a0\u201d, mais \u00e7a reste indiscutable. R\u00e9p\u00e9tons-le. Il y a des mots comme \u00e7a, souvent tr\u00e8s connus et dignes d\u2019un classement sp\u00e9cial, dans l\u2019indexation de l\u2019Histoire en citations<\/i>.<\/p>\n

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\u00ab\u00a0Tuez-les, mais tuez-les tous, pour qu\u2019il n\u2019en reste pas un pour me le reprocher.\u00a0\u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n

CHARLES\u00a0IX<\/span><\/span> (1550-1574), 23\u00a0ao\u00fbt 1572<\/p>\n\n<\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u00ab\u00a0H\u00e9las qu\u2019ai-je donc fait\u00a0?\u00a0 \u2014 Si tu n\u2019as rien fait, cela doit te consoler\u00a0: tu mourras innocent\u00a0!\u00a0\u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n

R\u00e9plique d\u2019un capitaine suisse au jeune Saint-Martin, nuit du 23 au 24\u00a0ao\u00fbt 1572<\/p>\n\n<\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u00ab\u00a0La messe ou la mort.\u00a0\u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n

CHARLES\u00a0IX<\/span><\/span> (1550-1574), \u00e0 Cond\u00e9, le 24\u00a0ao\u00fbt 1572<\/p>\n\n<\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u00ab\u00a0\u00c9crasons l\u2019inf\u00e2me.\u00a0\u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n

VOLTAIRE<\/span><\/span> (1694-1778)<\/p>\n\n<\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u00ab\u00a0Vous \u00eates perdus si vous oubliez que les fruits sont \u00e0 tous, et que la terre n\u2019est \u00e0 personne\u00a0!\u00a0\u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n

Jean-Jacques <\/span>ROUSSEAU<\/span><\/span> (1712-1778), Discours sur l\u2019origine et les fondements de l\u2019in\u00e9galit\u00e9 parmi les hommes<\/cite> (1755)<\/p>\n\n<\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u00ab\u00a0J\u2019ai re\u00e7u, Monsieur, votre nouveau livre contre le genre humain [\u2026] On n\u2019a jamais employ\u00e9 tant d\u2019esprit \u00e0 vouloir nous rendre b\u00eates. Il prend envie de marcher \u00e0 quatre pattes, quand on lit votre ouvrage.\u00a0\u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n

VOLTAIRE<\/span><\/span> (1694-1778), Lettre \u00e0 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 30\u00a0ao\u00fbt 1755, Correspondance<\/cite> (posthume)<\/p>\n\n<\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u00ab\u00a0Le silence des peuples est la le\u00e7on des rois.\u00a0\u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n

Comte de <\/span>MIRABEAU<\/span><\/span> (1749-1791), Constituante, Versailles, 15\u00a0juillet 1789<\/p>\n\n<\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u00ab\u00a0Que la pique du peuple brise le sceptre des rois\u00a0!\u00a0\u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n

Georges Jacques <\/span>DANTON<\/span><\/span> (1759-1794), Convention, 4\u00a0octobre 1792<\/p>\n\n<\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u00ab\u00a0On ne peut point r\u00e9gner innocemment\u00a0: la folie en est trop \u00e9vidente. Tout roi est un rebelle et un usurpateur.\u00a0\u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n

Louis Antoine de <\/span>SAINT-JUST<\/span><\/span> (1767-1794), Question concernant le jugement de Louis\u00a0XVI, 13\u00a0novembre\u00a01792<\/p>\n\n<\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u00ab\u00a0Louis doit mourir pour que la patrie vive.\u00a0\u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n

Maximilien <\/span>ROBESPIERRE<\/span><\/span> (1758-1794), \u00ab\u00a0c\u00e9l\u00e8bre sentence\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n\n<\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u00ab\u00a0Donnez un verre de sang \u00e0 ce cannibale\u00a0: il a soif\u00a0!\u00a0\u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n

Pierre Victurnien <\/span>VERGNIAUD<\/span><\/span> (1753-1793), \u00e0 Marat vitup\u00e9rant \u00e0 la tribune de la Convention, 13\u00a0avril\u00a01793<\/p>\n\n<\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u00ab\u00a0Ceux qui font les r\u00e9volutions \u00e0 moiti\u00e9 n\u2019ont fait que se creuser un tombeau.\u00a0\u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n

Louis Antoine de <\/span>SAINT-JUST<\/span><\/span> (1767-1794), Convention, Rapport du 26\u00a0f\u00e9vrier 1794 (premier d\u00e9cret de vent\u00f4se)<\/p>\n\n<\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u00ab\u00a0C\u2019est pire qu\u2019un crime, c\u2019est une faute.\u00a0\u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n

Antoine Claude Joseph <\/span>BOULAY de la MEURTHE<\/span><\/span> (1761-1840), apprenant l\u2019ex\u00e9cution du duc d\u2019Enghien, le 21\u00a0mars 1804.
Mot parfois attribu\u00e9, mais \u00e0 tort, \u00e0 FOUCH\u00c9<\/span><\/span> (1759-1820) ou \u00e0 TALLEYRAND<\/span><\/span> (1754-1838)<\/p>\n\n<\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u00ab\u00a0Commediante\u00a0! Tragediante\u00a0!\u00a0\u00bb\u00ab\u00a0Com\u00e9dien\u00a0! Trag\u00e9dien\u00a0!\u00a0\u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n

PIE VII<\/span><\/span> (1742-1823)<\/p>\n\n<\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u00ab\u00a0Vous n\u2019\u00eates que de la merde dans un bas de soie.\u00a0\u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n

NAPOL\u00c9ON\u00a0Ier<\/sup><\/span><\/span> (1769-1821), \u00e0 Talleyrand, Conseil des ministres restreint convoqu\u00e9 au ch\u00e2teau des Tuileries, 28\u00a0janvier 1809<\/p>\n\n<\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u00ab\u00a0Quel dommage, Messieurs, qu\u2019un si grand homme soit si mal \u00e9lev\u00e9\u00a0!\u00a0\u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n

TALLEYRAND<\/span><\/span> (1754-1838)<\/p>\n\n<\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u00ab\u00a0Voil\u00e0 le commencement de la fin.\u00a0\u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n

TALLEYRAND<\/span><\/span> (1754-1838), \u00e0 l\u2019annonce du d\u00e9sastre de la retraite de Russie, d\u00e9cembre\u00a01812<\/p>\n\n<\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u00ab\u00a0Il faut tuer Buonaparte comme un chien enrag\u00e9.\u00a0\u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n

TALLEYRAND<\/span><\/span> (1754-1838), Congr\u00e8s de Vienne, 12\u00a0mars 1815<\/p>\n\n<\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u00ab\u00a0Un g\u00e9n\u00e9ral anglais leur cria\u00a0: Braves Fran\u00e7ais, rendez-vous\u00a0! Cambronne r\u00e9pondit\u00a0: Merde\u00a0! Foudroyer d\u2019un tel mot le tonnerre qui vous tue, c\u2019est vaincre.\u00a0\u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n

Victor <\/span>HUGO<\/span><\/span> (1802-1885), Les Mis\u00e9rables<\/cite> (1862)<\/p>\n\n<\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u00ab\u00a0Tout \u00e0 coup, une porte s\u2019ouvre\u00a0: entre silencieusement le vice appuy\u00e9 sur le bras du crime, Monsieur de Talleyrand soutenu par Monsieur Fouch\u00e9.\u00a0\u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n

Fran\u00e7ois Ren\u00e9 de <\/span>CHATEAUBRIAND<\/span><\/span> (1768-1848), M\u00e9moires d\u2019outre-tombe<\/cite> (posthume)<\/p>\n\n<\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u00ab\u00a0Enrichissez-vous.\u00a0\u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n

Fran\u00e7ois <\/span>GUIZOT<\/span><\/span> (1787-1874), Chambre des d\u00e9put\u00e9s, 1er<\/sup>\u00a0mars 1843<\/p>\n\n<\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u00ab\u00a0Je suis leur chef, il fallait bien les suivre.\u00a0\u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n

LEDRU-ROLLIN<\/span><\/span> (1807-1874), au lendemain de l\u2019insurrection du 13\u00a0juin 1849<\/p>\n\n<\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u00ab\u00a0Louis Bonaparte est un homme de moyenne taille, froid, p\u00e2le, lent, qui a l\u2019air de n\u2019\u00eatre pas tout \u00e0 fait r\u00e9veill\u00e9 [\u2026] Les chefs de la droite disaient volontiers de Louis Bonaparte\u00a0: C\u2019est un idiot. Ils se trompaient. C\u2019est un livre o\u00f9 il y a des pages arrach\u00e9es. \u00c0 tout moment quelque chose manque. Louis Bonaparte a une id\u00e9e fixe, mais une id\u00e9e fixe n\u2019est pas l\u2019idiotisme.\u00a0\u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n

Victor <\/span>HUGO<\/span><\/span> (1802-1885), Napol\u00e9on le Petit<\/cite> (1852)<\/p>\n\n<\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u00ab\u00a0Qui arracherait une plume \u00e0 son aigle risquerait d\u2019avoir dans la main une plume d\u2019oie.\u00a0\u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n

Victor <\/span>HUGO<\/span><\/span> (1802-1885), Histoire d\u2019un crime<\/cite> (1877)<\/p>\n\n<\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u00ab\u00a0L\u2019empereur est une grande incapacit\u00e9 m\u00e9connue.\u00a0\u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n

Otto von <\/span>BISMARCK<\/span><\/span> (1815-1898)<\/p>\n\n<\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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