{"id":2497,"date":"2015-12-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-30T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/2025\/06\/19\/je-ne-vois-plus-dans-letat-que-de-la-misere\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T09:15:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T07:15:19","slug":"je-ne-vois-plus-dans-letat-que-de-la-misere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/je-ne-vois-plus-dans-letat-que-de-la-misere\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00ab Je ne vois plus dans l&#039;\u00c9tat que de la mis\u00e8re,&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/assignat_de_15_sols.jpg\" alt=\"14 decembre 1789 : cr\u00e9ation des assignats\" title=\"14 decembre 1789 : cr\u00e9ation des assignats\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto\" width=\"218\" height=\"188\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>14 decembre 1789\u00a0: cr\u00e9ation des assignats<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"citation\"><span class=\"enonce\">\u00ab\u00a0Je ne vois plus dans l\u2019\u00c9tat que de la mis\u00e8re, de l\u2019orgueil et du papier.\u00a0\u00bb<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"auteur\"><span data-href=\"\/auteurs\/louis-antoine-de-saint-just\"><span class=\"author\"><span class=\"surname\">Louis Antoine de <\/span><span class=\"name\"><span class=\"caps\">SAINT<\/span>\u2013<span class=\"caps\">JUST<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> (1767-1794), Discours sur les subsistances, Convention, 29\u00a0novembre\u00a01792<\/p>\n<p class=\"source\"><cite>\u0152uvres de Saint-Just, repr\u00e9sentant du peuple \u00e0 la Convention nationale<\/cite> (posthume, 1834), Saint-Just.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"ressi\">Devant les mauvaises finances de cette jeune R\u00e9publique, Saint-Just s\u2019\u00e9meut non sans raison.<\/p>\n<p>La guerre co\u00fbte cher \u00e0 la nation, et l\u2019assignat, monnaie de papier cr\u00e9\u00e9e en septembre\u00a01790, conna\u00eet une crise de confiance, jug\u00e9e antipatriotique, mais r\u00e9elle. Sa valeur chute \u00e0 chaque nouvelle \u00e9mission. L\u2019\u00e9conomie a ses lois que l\u2019id\u00e9ologie ignore.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"citation-small\">\u00ab\u00a0Pass\u00e9 S\u00e8vres, on ne trouverait pas un verre d\u2019eau pour des assignats.\u00a0\u00bb<span id=\"1653\" class=\"cit-num\">1653<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"auteur\">Aphorisme qui a cours en 1795<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Les rapports de police consignent ces propos tenus dans la rue sur l\u2019assignat. Ils notent qu\u2019une femme a tu\u00e9 deux de ses enfants, faute de pouvoir les nourrir, que propri\u00e9taires et rentiers cherchent leur nourriture dans des tas d\u2019ordures, que des passants murmurent\u00a0: \u00ab\u00a0On vivait sous les rois, on meurt sous le gouvernement actuel.\u00a0\u00bb Une affiche sur le boulevard de la Madeleine r\u00e9jouit les badauds\u00a0: \u00ab\u00a0R\u00e9publique \u00e0 vendre, \u00e0 bas prix, en num\u00e9raire\u00a0\u00bb.<\/p>\n<p>La chute de l\u2019assignat s\u2019acc\u00e9l\u00e8re et la province refuse le papier. L\u2019\u00c9tat devra recourir \u00e0 la banqueroute des deux tiers, pudiquement d\u00e9guis\u00e9e en \u00ab\u00a0tiers consolid\u00e9\u00a0\u00bb.<\/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-5-7.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<\/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>14 decembre 1789&nbsp;: cr\u00e9ation des assignats \u00ab\u00a0Je ne vois plus dans l&#8217;\u00c9tat que de la mis\u00e8re, de l&#8217;orgueil et du papier.\u00a0\u00bb Louis Antoine de SAINT-JUST (1767-1794), Discours sur les subsistances, Convention, 29\u00a0novembre\u00a01792 \u0152uvres de Saint-Just, repr\u00e9sentant du peuple \u00e0 la Convention nationale (posthume, 1834), Saint-Just. Devant les mauvaises finances de cette jeune R\u00e9publique, Saint-Just s&#8217;\u00e9meut [&#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":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1472],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chronique-citation-du-jour-louis-antoine-de-saint-just-revolution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2497","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=2497"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2500,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2497\/revisions\/2500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}