{"id":2600,"date":"2015-12-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-01T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/2025\/06\/19\/le-pretendu-dieu-des-armees-est-toujours-pour\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T09:15:23","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T07:15:23","slug":"le-pretendu-dieu-des-armees-est-toujours-pour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/le-pretendu-dieu-des-armees-est-toujours-pour\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00ab Le pr\u00e9tendu dieu des arm\u00e9es est toujours pour&#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\/ernest_renan_citations.jpg\" alt=\"ernest renan citations\" title=\"ernest renan citations\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\"><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"citation citation-small\"><span class=\"enonce\">\u00ab\u00a0Le pr\u00e9tendu dieu des arm\u00e9es est toujours pour la nation qui a la meilleure artillerie, les meilleurs g\u00e9n\u00e9raux.\u00a0\u00bb<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"auteur\"><span data-href=\"\/auteurs\/ernest-renan\"><span class=\"author\"><span class=\"surname\">Ernest <\/span><span class=\"name\"><span class=\"caps\">RENAN<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> (1823-1892), <cite>Dialogues et fragments philosophiques<\/cite> (1876)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"ressi\">La guerre de 1870 va \u00e9branler bien des certitudes et des enthousiasmes chez les hommes qui en seront t\u00e9moins.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"citation citation-small\"><span class=\"enonce\">\u00ab\u00a0L\u2019\u00e9lection encourage le charlatanisme.\u00a0\u00bb<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"auteur\"><span data-href=\"\/auteurs\/ernest-renan\"><span class=\"author\"><span class=\"surname\">Ernest <\/span><span class=\"name\"><span class=\"caps\">RENAN<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> (1823-1892), <cite>La R\u00e9forme intellectuelle et morale de la France<\/cite> (1871)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"ressi\">Sa <em class=\"temp\">Vie de J\u00e9sus<\/em> (1863) fait scandale et lui co\u00fbte sa chaire d\u2019h\u00e9breu au Coll\u00e8ge de France, mais lui donne une c\u00e9l\u00e9brit\u00e9 europ\u00e9enne. Devenu un personnage officiel, jouissant d\u2019un grand prestige aupr\u00e8s de jeunes disciples qui ont nom Barr\u00e8s, Bourget, Maurras, il est de plus en plus sceptique face \u00e0 la d\u00e9mocratie, ou du moins l\u2019usage qui en est fait.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"citation-small\">\u00ab\u00a0Une patrie se compose des morts qui l\u2019ont fond\u00e9e aussi bien que des vivants qui la continuent.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<p class=\"auteur\">Ernest <span class=\"caps\">RENAN<\/span> (1823-1892), R\u00e9ponse au discours de r\u00e9ception de Ferdinand de Lesseps \u00e0 l\u2019Acad\u00e9mie fran\u00e7aise, 23 avril 1885, Discours et Conf\u00e9rences<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"ressi\">Le c\u00e9l\u00e8bre et scandaleux auteur de la <em>Vie de J\u00e9sus<\/em> re\u00e7oit le vicomte octog\u00e9naire, heureux constructeur et administrateur du canal de Suez (qui lui a d\u00e9j\u00e0 ouvert les portes de l\u2019Acad\u00e9mie des sciences en 1873).<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"citation-small\">\u00ab\u00a0Le jour o\u00f9 la France coupa la t\u00eate de son roi, elle commit un suicide.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<p class=\"auteur\">Ernest <span class=\"caps\">RENAN<\/span> (1823-1892), <em>La R\u00e9forme intellectuelle et morale de la France<\/em> (1871).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"ressi\">Historien chr\u00e9tien, il fait r\u00e9f\u00e9rence au lien charnel qui existe entre le pays et le roi, allant jusqu\u2019\u00e0 l\u2019identification \u00e0 la fin du Moyen \u00c2ge, sous Louis <span class=\"caps\">XI<\/span> qui affirme\u00a0: \u00ab\u00a0Je suis France\u00a0\u00bb. Plus contemporain, on pense aussi au mot de Mauriac \u00e0 propos du g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de Gaulle, en 1940\u00a0: \u00ab\u00a0Un fou a dit, moi la France, et personne n\u2019a ri parce que c\u2019\u00e9tait vrai.\u00a0\u00bb <\/p>\n<p>Cette r\u00e9flexion de Renan intervient au lendemain de la d\u00e9faite face \u00e0 l\u2019Allemagne, quand la France amput\u00e9e, d\u00e9sempar\u00e9e, n\u2019est pas encore acquise \u00e0 la R\u00e9publique. Peinant \u00e0 faire son deuil d\u2019un r\u00e9gime monarchique constitutionnel, il parle donc \u00e0 ses contemporains \u2013 cela vaut pour la plupart des auteurs, historiens et philosophes. Il incrimine la R\u00e9volution, son culte de la \u00ab\u00a0table rase\u00a0\u00bb et de l\u2019homme nouveau, et regrette cette irr\u00e9m\u00e9diable rupture dans la continuit\u00e9 historique, dont la mort du roi fut le symbole.<\/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\u00a0Le pr\u00e9tendu dieu des arm\u00e9es est toujours pour la nation qui a la meilleure artillerie, les meilleurs g\u00e9n\u00e9raux.\u00a0\u00bb Ernest RENAN (1823-1892), Dialogues et fragments philosophiques (1876) La guerre de 1870 va \u00e9branler bien des certitudes et des enthousiasmes chez les hommes qui en seront t\u00e9moins. \u00ab\u00a0L&#8217;\u00e9lection encourage le charlatanisme.\u00a0\u00bb Ernest RENAN (1823-1892), La R\u00e9forme intellectuelle 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