{"id":2589,"date":"2015-12-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-01T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/2025\/06\/19\/toutes-les-fois-que-les-gouvernements\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T09:15:21","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T07:15:21","slug":"toutes-les-fois-que-les-gouvernements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/toutes-les-fois-que-les-gouvernements\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00ab Toutes les fois que les gouvernements&#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\/benjamin_constant.jpg\" alt=\"benjamin constant citation\" title=\"benjamin constant citation\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto\" width=\"298\" height=\"319\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>8 d\u00e9cembre 1830\u00a0: mort de Benjamin Constant<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"citation-small\">\u00ab\u00a0Ainsi se r\u00e9pandit sur la France cet inexplicable vertige qu\u2019on a nomm\u00e9 le r\u00e8gne de la Terreur.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<p class=\"auteur\">Benjamin <span class=\"caps\">CONSTANT<\/span> (1767-1830), <em>De l\u2019esprit de conqu\u00eate et de l\u2019usurpation dans leurs rapports avec la civilisation europ\u00e9enne<\/em> (1814)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"ressi\">Suisse d\u2019origine, futur amant de Mme de Sta\u00ebl et futur grand \u00e9crivain, il regarde la R\u00e9volution de France des quatre coins de l\u2019Europe o\u00f9 il m\u00e8ne \u00ab\u00a0une vie errante et d\u00e9cousue\u00a0\u00bb.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"citation-small\">\u00ab\u00a0La Terreur causa la r\u00e9volte de Lyon, l\u2019insurrection d\u00e9partementale, la guerre de Vend\u00e9e\u00a0; et pour soumettre Lyon, pour dissiper la coalition des d\u00e9partements, pour \u00e9touffer la Vend\u00e9e, il fallut la Terreur. Mais sans la Terreur, Lyon ne se f\u00fbt pas insurg\u00e9, les d\u00e9partements ne se seraient pas r\u00e9unis, la Vend\u00e9e n\u2019e\u00fbt pas proclam\u00e9 Louis <span class=\"caps\">XVII<\/span>.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<p class=\"auteur\">Benjamin <span class=\"caps\">CONSTANT<\/span> (1767-1830), <em>Des effets de la Terreur<\/em> (1797)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"ressi\">C\u2019est fort bien d\u00e9montrer le cercle vicieux de la r\u00e9pression et de la r\u00e9volte dans lequel s\u2019est enferm\u00e9e la R\u00e9volution. Un armistice de compromis sera sign\u00e9 avec les chefs en f\u00e9vrier-mars 1795. Et le d\u00e9cret du 26 octobre 1795 proclamera l\u2019amnistie pour \u00ab\u00a0les faits purement relatifs \u00e0 la r\u00e9volution\u00a0\u00bb. Entretemps, Louis Marie Turreau est arr\u00eat\u00e9 pour exc\u00e8s de z\u00e8le dans la guerre de Vend\u00e9e, le 29 septembre 1794. Acquitt\u00e9 un an apr\u00e8s, il est m\u00eame r\u00e9habilit\u00e9 par un tribunal militaire jugeant qu\u2019il n\u2019a fait qu\u2019ob\u00e9ir aux ordres.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"citation citation-small\"><span class=\"enonce\">\u00ab\u00a0Toutes les fois que les gouvernements pr\u00e9tendent faire nos affaires, ils les font plus mal et plus dispendieusement que nous.\u00a0\u00bb<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"auteur\"><span data-href=\"\/auteurs\/benjamin-constant\"><span class=\"author\"><span class=\"surname\">Benjamin <\/span><span class=\"name\"><span class=\"caps\">CONSTANT<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> (1767-1830), <cite>Cours de politique constitutionnelle<\/cite> (1836)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"ressi\">Il parle ici en chef du parti lib\u00e9ral, et d\u00e9put\u00e9 d\u2019une gauche qui d\u00e9fend la monarchie parlementaire. La Restauration, p\u00e9riode de r\u00e9action politique et id\u00e9ologique de plus en plus marqu\u00e9e, va engendrer par contrecoup le d\u00e9veloppement des id\u00e9es lib\u00e9rales et s\u2019ach\u00e8vera dans une nouvelle r\u00e9volution. Le d\u00e9bat public porte avant tout sur des questions politiques \u2013 le socialisme n\u2019est le fait que de pr\u00e9curseurs, tels le comte de Saint-Simon et Fourier.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"citation-small\">\u00ab\u00a0Le matin, royaliste,<br>Je dis\u00a0: \u201cvive Louis\u00a0!\u201d<br>Le soir, bonapartiste,<br>Pour l\u2019Empereur j\u2019\u00e9cris,<br>Suivant la circonstance,<br>Toujours changeant d\u2019avis,<br>Je mets en \u00e9vidence<br>L\u2019aigle ou la fleur de lys.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<p class=\"auteur\"><em>La Girouette<\/em> (1814), chanson anonyme.<em> Histoire secr\u00e8te de Paris<\/em> (1980), Georges Bordonove<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"ressi\">Sous-titr\u00e9e\u00a0: \u00ab\u00a0Couplet d\u00e9di\u00e9 \u00e0 M. Benjamin Constant, ci-devant royaliste, puis conseiller d\u2019\u00c9tat de Bonaparte, et en dernier r\u00e9sultat redevenu royaliste.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<p>Benjamin Constant n\u2019est pas le seul \u00e0 faire preuve d\u2019opportunisme, en cette \u00e9poque de changements de r\u00e9gime. Mais le personnage particuli\u00e8rement intelligent, irr\u00e9solu, faible jusqu\u2019\u00e0 la l\u00e2chet\u00e9, romancier de sa propre vie, c\u00e9l\u00e8bre, et brillant orateur, est particuli\u00e8rement en vue.<\/p>\n<p>Sous la Restauration, il peut \u00eatre rang\u00e9 dans l\u2019opposition de gauche, comme lib\u00e9ral et monarchiste parlementaire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ressi\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/histoire-en-citations-volume-7-7.jpg\" alt=\"restauration citation\" title=\"restauration citations histoire\" style=\"float: left;margin: 10px\" width=\"165\" height=\"220\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"ressi\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"ressi\"><a title=\"restauration citations histoire\" href=\"https:\/\/www.histoire-en-citations.fr\/boutique\/volume-7\">Feuilletez notre Chronique sur la Restauration pour en savoir plus<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ressi\">\u00a0<\/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>8 d\u00e9cembre 1830&nbsp;: mort de Benjamin Constant \u00ab\u00a0Ainsi se r\u00e9pandit sur la France cet inexplicable vertige qu\u2019on a nomm\u00e9 le r\u00e8gne de la Terreur.\u00a0\u00bb Benjamin CONSTANT (1767-1830), De l\u2019esprit de conqu\u00eate et de l\u2019usurpation dans leurs rapports avec la civilisation europ\u00e9enne (1814) Suisse d\u2019origine, futur amant de Mme de Sta\u00ebl et futur grand \u00e9crivain, il 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