{"id":2458,"date":"2015-12-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-30T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/2025\/06\/19\/pour-faire-sentir-toute-labsurdite-de-ce\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T09:15:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T07:15:18","slug":"pour-faire-sentir-toute-labsurdite-de-ce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/pour-faire-sentir-toute-labsurdite-de-ce\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00ab Pour faire sentir toute l&#039;absurdit\u00e9 de ce&#8230;"},"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\/camille_desmoulins_citations.jpg\" alt=\"Camille Desmoulins citations\" title=\"Camille Desmoulins citations\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto\" width=\"233\" height=\"291\"><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"citation\"><span class=\"enonce\">\u00ab\u00a0Pour faire sentir toute l\u2019absurdit\u00e9 de ce d\u00e9cret, il suffit de dire que Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Corneille et Gabriel de Mably [le philosophe] n\u2019auraient pas \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9ligibles.\u00a0\u00bb<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"auteur\"><span data-href=\"\/auteurs\/camille-desmoulins\"><span class=\"author\"><span class=\"surname\">Camille <\/span><span class=\"name\"><span class=\"caps\">DESMOULINS<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> (1760-1794)<\/p>\n<p class=\"source\"><cite>Histoire socialiste, 1789-1900<\/cite>, Volume 1, La Constituante (1908), Jean Jaur\u00e8s.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"ressi\">Le socialiste Jean Jaur\u00e8s, qui dirige cette <em class=\"temp\">Histoire<\/em> en 13 volumes, va r\u00e9diger lui-m\u00eame les quatre premiers, traitant de la R\u00e9volution fran\u00e7aise.<\/p>\n<p>Le journaliste r\u00e9volutionnaire Camille Desmoulins, qui n\u2019a pas r\u00e9ussi \u00e0 \u00eatre \u00e9lu d\u00e9put\u00e9, s\u2019\u00e9l\u00e8ve contre le syst\u00e8me censitaire instaur\u00e9 le 29\u00a0septembre 1789. Un tel mode d\u2019\u00e9lection aurait m\u00eame exclu J\u00e9sus-Christ, selon lui\u00a0!<\/p>\n<p>Sont citoyens actifs (\u00e9lecteurs) ceux qui paient un imp\u00f4t direct \u00e9gal \u00e0 trois journ\u00e9es de travail\u00a0; \u00e9ligibles, dix journ\u00e9es de travail. Exclus d\u2019office\u00a0: les juifs, les valets, les banqueroutiers et les d\u00e9biteurs insolvables.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"citation-small\">\u00ab\u00a0Le v\u00e9ritable patriote ne conna\u00eet point les personnes, il ne conna\u00eet que les principes.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<p class=\"auteur\"><span class=\"caps\">DESMOULINS<\/span>, 15\u00a0d\u00e9cembre 1792 au proc\u00e8s du roi<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Camille Desmoulins, Montagnard, membre des Cordeliers et ami de Danton, exprime la pens\u00e9e devenue majoritaire, dans le personnel politique. Et le roi qui n\u2019est plus roi, mais seulement Louis Capet, est un justiciable comme les autres, dans ce proc\u00e8s.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"citation-small\">\u00ab\u00a0Le sommeil bienfaisant a suspendu mes maux\u00a0; on n\u2019a pas le sentiment de sa captivit\u00e9, on est libre quand on dort.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<p class=\"auteur\">Camille <span class=\"caps\">DESMOULINS<\/span> (1760-1794), Lettre \u00e0 Lucile, 1er avril 1794<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Apr\u00e8s les H\u00e9bertistes trop enrag\u00e9s, vient le tour des Dantonistes trop mod\u00e9r\u00e9s. Danton, Desmoulins, Lacroix et Philippeaux\u00a0: arr\u00eat\u00e9s le 30 mars, sit\u00f4t jug\u00e9s pour crime d\u2019indulgence. Telle est la terrible logique de la Terreur. \u00ab\u00a0Le nombre des coupables n\u2019est pas si grand\u00a0!\u00a0\u00bb, dit Robespierre, le 31 mars. Mais il est petit \u00e0 l\u2019infini, si les proscriptions n\u2019ont pas de fin.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"citation-small\">\u00ab\u00a0J\u2019ai l\u2019\u00e2ge du sans-culotte J\u00e9sus\u00a0; c\u2019est-\u00e0-dire trente-trois ans, \u00e2ge fatal aux r\u00e9volutionnaires\u00a0!\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<p class=\"auteur\">Camille <span class=\"caps\">DESMOULINS<\/span> (1760-1794), au Tribunal r\u00e9volutionnaire lui demandant son nom, son \u00e2ge, 2\u00a0avril 1794<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>En r\u00e9alit\u00e9, il vient d\u2019avoir 34 ans. Mais l\u2019\u00e2ge du Christ et le rapprochement avec cet \u00ab\u00a0anarchiste qui a r\u00e9ussi\u00a0\u00bb (Andr\u00e9 Malraux) font r\u00e9f\u00e9rence. Le capucin Chabot l\u2019a \u00e9galement proclam\u00e9 au d\u00e9but de la Terreur de septembre 1793, assurant publiquement que le \u00ab\u00a0citoyen J\u00e9sus-Christ a \u00e9t\u00e9 le premier sansculotte du monde\u00a0\u00bb.<\/p>\n<p>Montagnard \u00e0 la Convention, Desmoulins a combattu les Girondins, leur mise \u00e0 mort l\u2019a cependant boulevers\u00e9. Il fonde alors un journal, Le Vieux Cordelier, pour d\u00e9fendre la politique de Danton contre celle du Comit\u00e9 de salut public (o\u00f9 Robespierre fait la loi avec Couthon et Saint-Just). \u00c0 peine a-t-il le temps de s\u2019\u00e9mouvoir de la nouvelle \u00e9puration \u2013 celle des Enrag\u00e9s \u2013 qu\u2019il est arr\u00eat\u00e9 le 30 mars, guillotin\u00e9 le 5 avril. Lucile, sa femme ador\u00e9e (fille naturelle de l\u2019abb\u00e9 Terray, ministre de Louis <span class=\"caps\">XV<\/span>), montera \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9chafaud le 13 avril.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Chronique R\u00e9volution citations\" href=\"https:\/\/www.histoire-en-citations.fr\/boutique\/volume-5\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/histoire-en-citations-volume-5-4.jpg\" alt=\"Chronique R\u00e9volution citations\" title=\"Chronique R\u00e9volution citations\" style=\"float: left;margin: 10px\" width=\"165\" height=\"220\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Chronique R\u00e9volution citations\" href=\"https:\/\/www.histoire-en-citations.fr\/boutique\/volume-5\" target=\"_blank\">Feuilletez notre Chronique sur la R\u00e9volution pour tout savoir<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\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\u00a0Pour faire sentir toute l&#8217;absurdit\u00e9 de ce d\u00e9cret, il suffit de dire que Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Corneille et Gabriel de Mably [le philosophe] n&#8217;auraient pas \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9ligibles.\u00a0\u00bb Camille DESMOULINS (1760-1794) Histoire socialiste, 1789-1900, Volume 1, La Constituante (1908), Jean Jaur\u00e8s. Le socialiste Jean Jaur\u00e8s, qui dirige cette Histoire en 13 volumes, va r\u00e9diger lui-m\u00eame les quatre [&#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":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1464],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-camille-desmoulins-chronique-citation-du-jour-revolution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2458","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=2458"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2461,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2458\/revisions\/2461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}