{"id":2525,"date":"2015-12-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-30T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/2025\/06\/19\/jai-jure-de-mourir-libre-la-liberte-est\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T09:15:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T07:15:18","slug":"jai-jure-de-mourir-libre-la-liberte-est","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/jai-jure-de-mourir-libre-la-liberte-est\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00ab J&#039;ai jur\u00e9 de mourir libre, la libert\u00e9 est&#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\/fusillade_du_champ-de-mars.jpg\" alt=\"fusillade du Champ-de-Mars\" title=\"fusillade du Champ-de-Mars\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto\" width=\"400\" height=\"326\"><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"citation\"><span class=\"enonce\">\u00ab\u00a0J\u2019ai jur\u00e9 de mourir libre, la libert\u00e9 est perdue, je meurs.\u00a0\u00bb<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"auteur\"><span data-href=\"\/auteurs\/provant\"><span class=\"author\"><span class=\"name\"><span class=\"caps\">PROVANT<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> (??-1791), apr\u00e8s le massacre du Champ de Mars, 17\u00a0juillet 1791<\/p>\n<p class=\"source\"><cite>Histoire de la R\u00e9volution fran\u00e7aise<\/cite> (1847-1853), Jules Michelet.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"ressi\">Garde national du bataillon de Saint-Nicolas, il \u00e9crit ces mots et se br\u00fble la cervelle, juste apr\u00e8s le drame.<\/p>\n<p>Paris est en \u00e9bullition, entre les p\u00e9titions \u00e0 signer pour d\u00e9cider du sort du roi, et l\u2019anniversaire de la F\u00eate de la F\u00e9d\u00e9ration \u00e0 c\u00e9l\u00e9brer. Le drapeau rouge de la loi martiale est d\u00e9ploy\u00e9 sur ordre du g\u00e9n\u00e9ral La Fayette, commandant de la garde nationale. La confusion devient totale. Un coup de feu part d\u2019on ne sait o\u00f9, et La Fayette fait tirer sur la foule.<\/p>\n<p>En fait, il y aura 15 morts (50, selon d\u2019autres sources). Ce n\u2019est pas consid\u00e9rable. Et pour \u00e9viter le pire, voyant des officiers pr\u00eats \u00e0 employer l\u2019artillerie, La Fayette a pouss\u00e9 son cheval face \u00e0 la gueule des canons, un geste qu\u2019il faut porter \u00e0 son cr\u00e9dit.<\/p>\n<p>Malgr\u00e9 tout, le choc est immense\u00a0: pour la premi\u00e8re fois, la milice bourgeoise a fait feu contre le peuple. Du jour au lendemain, La Fayette le h\u00e9ros est d\u00e9test\u00e9. Le drapeau rouge fait son entr\u00e9e dans l\u2019histoire de France \u2013 mais il aura une signification oppos\u00e9e, quand il sera d\u00e9ploy\u00e9 par les r\u00e9volutionnaires contre l\u2019ordre \u00e9tabli. Et le foss\u00e9 se creuse entre les d\u00e9put\u00e9s constitutionnels mod\u00e9r\u00e9s et les autres, de plus en plus pr\u00e9sents.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"citation\">\u00ab\u00a0La bourgeoisie et le peuple r\u00e9unis ont fait la R\u00e9volution. Leur r\u00e9union seule peut la conserver. Leur int\u00e9r\u00eat est indivisible, leur bonheur est commun.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<p class=\"auteur\">J\u00e9r\u00f4me <span class=\"caps\">P\u00c9TION<\/span> de <span class=\"caps\">VILLENEUVE<\/span> (1756-1794).<em> Encyclop\u00e9die nouvelle, ou dictionnaire philosophique, scientifique, litt\u00e9raire et industriel<\/em> (1841), P. Leroux, J. Reynaud<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"ressi\">P\u00e9tion, avocat, d\u00e9put\u00e9 \u00e0 la Constituante et membre du club des Jacobins, succ\u00e8de \u00e0 Bailly \u00e0 la suite de cette affaire du Champ de Mars, comme maire de la Commune \u2013 gouvernement r\u00e9volutionnaire de Paris, qui s\u2019est install\u00e9 \u00e0 l\u2019H\u00f4tel de Ville au lendemain de la prise de la Bastille.<\/p>\n<p>Malgr\u00e9 la mise en garde de P\u00e9tion, et sa tr\u00e8s juste analyse de la situation, la scission entre la bourgeoisie et le peuple fut consomm\u00e9e sur le Champ de Mars, ce 17 juillet 1791.<\/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-5-13.jpg\" alt=\"Chronique R\u00e9volution citations\" title=\"Chronique R\u00e9volution citations\" style=\"float: left;margin-left: 10px;margin-right: 10px\" width=\"165\" height=\"220\"><\/a><\/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<\/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\u00a0J&#8217;ai jur\u00e9 de mourir libre, la libert\u00e9 est perdue, je meurs.\u00a0\u00bb PROVANT (??-1791), apr\u00e8s le massacre du Champ de Mars, 17\u00a0juillet 1791 Histoire de la R\u00e9volution fran\u00e7aise (1847-1853), Jules Michelet. Garde national du bataillon de Saint-Nicolas, il \u00e9crit ces mots et se br\u00fble la cervelle, juste apr\u00e8s le drame. Paris est en \u00e9bullition, entre les [&#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":7,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1466],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chronique-citation-du-jour-provant-revolution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2525","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=2525"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2528,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2525\/revisions\/2528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}