{"id":2466,"date":"2015-12-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-30T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/2025\/06\/19\/on-veut-nous-attendrir-messieurs-en-faveur-du\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T09:15:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T07:15:18","slug":"on-veut-nous-attendrir-messieurs-en-faveur-du","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/on-veut-nous-attendrir-messieurs-en-faveur-du\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00ab On veut nous attendrir, Messieurs, en faveur du&#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\/barnave.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto\" width=\"250\" height=\"316\"><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"citation citation-small\"><span class=\"enonce\">\u00ab\u00a0On veut nous attendrir, Messieurs, en faveur du sang qui a \u00e9t\u00e9 vers\u00e9 hier \u00e0 Paris\u00a0: ce sang \u00e9tait-il donc si pur\u00a0?\u00a0\u00bb<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"auteur\"><span data-href=\"\/auteurs\/antoine-barnave\"><span class=\"author\"><span class=\"surname\">Antoine <\/span><span class=\"name\"><span class=\"caps\">BARNAVE<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> (1761-1793), <cite>Constituante<\/cite>, 23\u00a0juillet 1789<\/p>\n<p class=\"source\"><cite>Les Martyrs de septembre<\/cite> (1919), Henri Welschinger.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"ressi\">Avocat et d\u00e9put\u00e9 du tiers, emport\u00e9 dans son \u00e9lan, il a ce mot malheureux au lendemain du massacre de Foullon et Berthier \u2013 dans des conditions de sauvagerie extr\u00eame, contre Foullon, vieillard de 75\u00a0ans, pendu trois fois \u00e0 la lanterne (la corde cassait toujours), puis d\u00e9capit\u00e9 dans l\u2019hyst\u00e9rie g\u00e9n\u00e9rale. Suite au supplice, sa t\u00eate au bout d\u2019une pique sera exhib\u00e9e devant Berthier (innocent) bient\u00f4t massacr\u00e9, son c\u0153ur arrach\u00e9 de sa poitrine et port\u00e9 devant Bailly, qui s\u2019en \u00e9vanouit. La Fayette, \u00e9c\u0153ur\u00e9, d\u00e9missionne.<\/p>\n<p>Mais le d\u00e9put\u00e9 exprime une id\u00e9e courante \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9poque\u00a0: les violences de la R\u00e9volution en marche sont justifi\u00e9es par celles de l\u2019Ancien R\u00e9gime en d\u00e9clin.<\/p>\n<p>Ajoutons, pour la m\u00e9moire de Barnave, que ce monarchiste constitutionnel, membre du club des Feuillants, est un lib\u00e9ral et un mod\u00e9r\u00e9 qui va le payer de sa vie, sous la Terreur.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"citation-small\">\u00ab\u00a0Si Louis <span class=\"caps\">XVI<\/span> avait su profiter de la F\u00e9d\u00e9ration, nous \u00e9tions perdus.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<p class=\"auteur\">Antoine <span class=\"caps\">BARNAVE<\/span> (1761-1793). <em>La Chute de l\u2019Ancienne France, La F\u00e9d\u00e9ration<\/em> (1896), Marius Cyrille Alphonse Sepet<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Le pilier du club des Jacobins, patriote d\u2019ailleurs mod\u00e9r\u00e9 parmi les r\u00e9volutionnaires, s\u2019oppose alors aux deux d\u00e9put\u00e9s cherchant toujours \u00e0 concilier R\u00e9volution et royaut\u00e9\u00a0: Mirabeau et La Fayette.<\/p>\n<p>Cette F\u00eate de la F\u00e9d\u00e9ration du 14 juillet 1790 est aussi le plus grand jour de gloire pour le g\u00e9n\u00e9ral La Fayette\u00a0: on baise ses mains et m\u00eame la croupe de son cheval, on frappera des m\u00e9dailles \u00e0 son effigie. Pourtant, Mirabeau d\u00e9teste ce \u00ab\u00a0maire du palais\u00a0\u00bb, il le traite de \u00ab\u00a0Gilles-C\u00e9sar\u00a0\u00bb, de \u00ab\u00a0sous-grandhomme\u00a0\u00bb, et Marat de \u00ab\u00a0faux ami du peuple\u00a0\u00bb.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"citation-small\">\u00ab\u00a0Au moment o\u00f9 la nation est libre, o\u00f9 tous les Fran\u00e7ais sont \u00e9gaux, vouloir davantage, c\u2019est vouloir commencer \u00e0 cesser d\u2019\u00eatre libres et devenir coupables.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<p class=\"auteur\">Antoine <span class=\"caps\">BARNAVE<\/span> (1761-1793), Constituante, 16 juillet 1791.<em> Histoire de la R\u00e9volution de France<\/em> (1801), Bertrand de Moleville<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Le triumvirat qu\u2019il forme avec deux autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s (du Port et de Lameth) assure le gouvernement. Mais la Constituante n\u2019est solide que si le roi est l\u00e0.<\/p>\n<p>Comme d\u2019autres mod\u00e9r\u00e9s, Barnave veut donc emp\u00eacher les r\u00e9publicains de le d\u00e9poser apr\u00e8s la fuite de Varennes. La veille, la commission d\u2019enqu\u00eate a remis son rapport sur la fuite du roi\u00a0: la th\u00e8se de l\u2019enl\u00e8vement pr\u00e9vaut, seuls les organisateurs et les ex\u00e9cutants sont coupables. C\u2019est un d\u00e9ni de r\u00e9alit\u00e9 trop flagrant\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Louis <span class=\"caps\">XVI<\/span> sera maintenu, mais reste suspendu jusqu\u2019au vote de la nouvelle constitution.<\/p>\n<p>Les r\u00e9publicains refusent cette d\u00e9cision et s\u2019agitent, au sein des clubs (Jacobins et Cordeliers). Ils d\u00e9cident de pr\u00e9senter \u00e0 l\u2019Assembl\u00e9e deux p\u00e9titions, pour exiger la d\u00e9ch\u00e9ance du roi, et son jugement. Les Cordeliers (Danton en t\u00eate) appellent plus que jamais le peuple \u00e0 manifester au Champ de Mars pour la R\u00e9publique, le 17 juillet.<\/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\u00a0On veut nous attendrir, Messieurs, en faveur du sang qui a \u00e9t\u00e9 vers\u00e9 hier \u00e0 Paris\u00a0: ce sang \u00e9tait-il donc si pur\u00a0?\u00a0\u00bb Antoine BARNAVE (1761-1793), Constituante, 23\u00a0juillet 1789 Les Martyrs de septembre (1919), Henri Welschinger. Avocat et d\u00e9put\u00e9 du tiers, emport\u00e9 dans son \u00e9lan, il a ce mot malheureux au lendemain du massacre de Foullon [&#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":13,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1462],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antoine-barnave-chronique-citation-du-jour-revolution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2466","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=2466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2468,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2466\/revisions\/2468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}