{"id":2444,"date":"2015-12-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-30T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/2025\/06\/19\/beaumarchais-en-citations\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T09:15:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T07:15:16","slug":"beaumarchais-en-citations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/beaumarchais-en-citations\/","title":{"rendered":"Beaumarchais en citations"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/beaumarchais_citations.jpg\" alt=\"beaumarchais citations\" title=\"beaumarchais citations\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;vertical-align: middle\" width=\"220\" height=\"284\"><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"citation\"><span class=\"enonce\">\u00ab\u00a0Parce que vous \u00eates un grand seigneur, vous vous croyez un grand g\u00e9nie\u00a0! Noblesse, fortune, un rang, des places\u00a0; tout cela rend si fier\u00a0! Qu\u2019avez-vous fait pour tant de biens\u00a0! Vous vous \u00eates donn\u00e9 la peine de na\u00eetre, et rien de plus\u00a0!\u00a0\u00bb<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"auteur\"><span data-href=\"\/auteurs\/pierre-augustin-caron-de-beaumarchais\"><span class=\"author\"><span class=\"name\"><span class=\"caps\">BEAUMARCHAIS<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> (1732-1799), <cite>Le Mariage de Figaro<\/cite> (1784)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"ressi\">L\u2019apostrophe, sign\u00e9e Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, appara\u00eet d\u00e9j\u00e0 r\u00e9volutionnaire avant la R\u00e9volution, et l\u2019\u0153uvre longtemps censur\u00e9e conna\u00eetra un immense succ\u00e8s, pour ses vertus pol\u00e9miques autant que dramatiques.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"citation-small\">\u00ab\u00a0Un Grand nous fait assez de bien quand il ne nous fait pas de mal.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<p class=\"auteur\"><span class=\"caps\">BEAUMARCHAIS<\/span> (1732-1799), <em>Le Barbier de S\u00e9ville<\/em> (1775)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"ressi\">Sa vie fut un roman, celle d\u2019un aventurier, libertin, parvenu, trafiquant d\u2019armes, tr\u00e8s repr\u00e9sentatif de cette p\u00e9riode de fermentation sociale qui pr\u00e9c\u00e8de la R\u00e9volution. Fils d\u2019un horloger, professeur de harpe des filles de Louis <span class=\"caps\">XV<\/span>, puis juge des d\u00e9lits de braconnage sur les terres royales, Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais est introduit dans le monde de la finance. Un proc\u00e8s l\u2019oppose \u00e0 un Grand (le comte de La Blache) et lui vaut une notori\u00e9t\u00e9 subite, en lui offrant l\u2019occasion de d\u00e9noncer publiquement la v\u00e9nalit\u00e9 d\u2019un de ses juges.<\/p>\n<p>Cette version du <em>Barbier<\/em> remporte un succ\u00e8s imm\u00e9diat\u00a0: premier acte th\u00e9\u00e2tral v\u00e9ritablement pr\u00e9r\u00e9volutionnaire, en attendant la suite, <em>Le Mariage<\/em>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>En 1777, Beaumarchais invente la \u00ab\u00a0gr\u00e8ve de la plume\u00a0\u00bb, mobilise ses confr\u00e8res et cr\u00e9e la premi\u00e8re soci\u00e9t\u00e9 d\u2019auteurs au monde, pour la d\u00e9fense des int\u00e9r\u00eats d\u2019une corporation jusqu\u2019alors exploit\u00e9e par les Com\u00e9diens-Fran\u00e7ais. C\u2019est dire comme ce personnage combattant agit et innove sur tous les terrains.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"citation-small\">\u00ab\u00a0Pourvu que je ne parle en mes \u00e9crits ni de l\u2019autorit\u00e9, ni du culte, ni de la politique, ni de la morale, ni des gens en place, ni des corps en cr\u00e9dit, ni de l\u2019op\u00e9ra, ni des autres spectacles, ni de personne qui tienne \u00e0 quelque chose, je puis tout imprimer librement, sous l\u2019inspection de deux ou trois censeurs.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<p class=\"auteur\"><span data-href=\"\/auteurs\/pierre-augustin-caron-de-beaumarchais\"><span class=\"author\"><span class=\"name\"><span class=\"caps\">BEAUMARCHAIS<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> (1732-1799), <cite>Le Mariage de Figaro<\/cite> ou <cite>La Folle Journ\u00e9e<\/cite> (1784)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"ressi\">La censure royale a remplac\u00e9 la censure religieuse de la Sorbonne au <span class=\"caps\">XVII<\/span>e si\u00e8cle\u00a0: 79 censeurs ont charge d\u2019autoriser ou d\u2019interdire livres ou pi\u00e8ces, selon leur moralit\u00e9. La censure inqui\u00e9tera plus ou moins tous les philosophes, qui iront se faire \u00e9diter en Suisse, Hollande, Angleterre. Abolie par la R\u00e9volution, r\u00e9tablie en 1797, de nouveau abolie, r\u00e9tablie, etc., ce sera une longue histoire dans l\u2019histoire, jusqu\u2019au d\u00e9but du <span class=\"caps\">XX<\/span>e si\u00e8cle. Le th\u00e9\u00e2tre, spectacle public, est expos\u00e9 plus encore que le livre aux foudres ou aux tracasseries d\u2019Anastasie aux grands ciseaux. Il est normal que Beaumarchais en traite, pour s\u2019en moquer. En tout cas, l\u2019auteur a \u00e9crit l\u00e0 son chef-d\u2019oeuvre.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"citation-small\">\u00ab\u00a0Il y a quelque chose de plus fou que ma pi\u00e8ce, c\u2019est son succ\u00e8s\u00a0!\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<p class=\"auteur\"><span class=\"caps\">BEAUMARCHAIS<\/span>, suite au triomphe du <em>Mariage<\/em>, cr\u00e9\u00e9 \u00e0 la Com\u00e9die-Fran\u00e7aise, 1784<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Sous-titr\u00e9 <em>La Folle Journ\u00e9e<\/em>, jou\u00e9 plus de cent fois de suite \u2013 un record, \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9poque. Mozart en fait aussit\u00f4t un opera buffa de g\u00e9nie\u00a0: <em>Les Noces de Figaro<\/em>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"citation-small\">\u00ab\u00a0Le mur murant Paris rend Paris murmurant.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<p class=\"auteur\">Alexandrin cit\u00e9 par beaumarchais \u00e9voquant l\u2019impopularit\u00e9 du mur en 1785, au point d\u2019en faire une des causes de la R\u00e9volution<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>C\u2019est le mur des Fermiers g\u00e9n\u00e9raux, enceinte de 24\u00a0km qui m\u00e9nage une soixantaine de passages dont <a href=\"http:\/\/www.histoire-en-citations.fr\/indexation\/paris\">Paris<\/a> garde aujourd\u2019hui quelques traces.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ressi\"><a title=\"si\u00e8cle lumi\u00e8res citations\" href=\"http:\/\/www.histoire-en-citations.fr\/boutique\/volume-4\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/histoire-en-citations-volume-4-9.jpg\" alt=\"si\u00e8cle lumi\u00e8res citations\" title=\"si\u00e8cle lumi\u00e8res citations\" style=\"float: left;margin: 10px\" width=\"150\" height=\"200\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ressi\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"ressi\"><a title=\"si\u00e8cle lumi\u00e8res citations\" href=\"http:\/\/www.histoire-en-citations.fr\/boutique\/volume-4\">Feuilletez notre Chronique sur le Si\u00e8cle des Lumi\u00e8res pour en savoir plus<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ressi\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"ressi\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<style>\r\n        a .cit-num {\r\n            text-decoration: none !important;\r\n            color: inherit !important;\r\n        }\r\n    <\/style>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00ab\u00a0Parce que vous \u00eates un grand seigneur, vous vous croyez un grand g\u00e9nie\u00a0! Noblesse, fortune, un rang, des places\u00a0; tout cela rend si fier\u00a0! Qu&#8217;avez-vous fait pour tant de biens\u00a0! Vous vous \u00eates donn\u00e9 la peine de na\u00eetre, et rien de plus\u00a0!\u00a0\u00bb BEAUMARCHAIS (1732-1799), Le Mariage de Figaro (1784) L&#8217;apostrophe, sign\u00e9e Pierre Augustin Caron de [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"iawp_total_views":71,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2444"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2447,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444\/revisions\/2447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}