{"id":4340,"date":"2017-02-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-14T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/2025\/06\/21\/lamartine-linstrument-de-cette-passion-actuelle-du-monde-moral-cest-la-presse-cest-loutil-de-la-civilisation\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T09:16:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T07:16:18","slug":"lamartine-linstrument-de-cette-passion-actuelle-du-monde-moral-cest-la-presse-cest-loutil-de-la-civilisation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/lamartine-linstrument-de-cette-passion-actuelle-du-monde-moral-cest-la-presse-cest-loutil-de-la-civilisation\/","title":{"rendered":"Lamartine : \u00ab l&rsquo;instrument de cette passion actuelle du monde moral, c&rsquo;est la presse, c&rsquo;est l&rsquo;outil de la civilisation.\u00a0\u00bb"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Petite histoire de la presse, troisi\u00e8me \u00e9pisode.<\/p>\n<p>Libert\u00e9 de la presse, une cause qui mobilise les meilleurs avocats litt\u00e9raires et politiques.<\/p>\n<p>Tout au long du <span class=\"caps\">XIX<\/span>e si\u00e8cle, la <a href=\"http:\/\/www.histoire-en-citations.fr\/indexation\/liberte\">libert\u00e9<\/a> est menac\u00e9e ou tout au moins surveill\u00e9e au fil des changements de r\u00e9gime et des politiques gouvernementales. Les plus grands noms militent naturellement pour la libert\u00e9. Mouvement irr\u00e9sistible \u00e0 long terme, parall\u00e8lement \u00e0 divers ph\u00e9nom\u00e8nes de soci\u00e9t\u00e9\u00a0: naissance d\u2019une v\u00e9ritable opinion publique, multiplication de nouveaux journaux, tirages croissants, dop\u00e9s par la publication des tr\u00e8s populaires feuilleton, sign\u00e9s des meilleurs romanciers, mais aussi de la publicit\u00e9 et de la presse rotative. <\/p>\n<p>La presse vit sa belle \u00e9poque.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"citation\"><span class=\"enonce\">\u00ab\u00a0La grande passion de ces temps-ci, c\u2019est [\u2026] la passion de l\u2019avenir, c\u2019est la passion du perfectionnement social [\u2026] Eh bien\u00a0: l\u2019instrument de cette passion actuelle du monde moral, c\u2019est la presse, c\u2019est l\u2019outil de la civilisation.\u00a0\u00bb<span id=\"2088\" class=\"cit-num\">2088<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"auteur\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.histoire-en-citations.fr\/indexation\/lamartine\"><span data-href=\"\/auteurs\/alphonse-de-lamartine\"><span class=\"author\"><span class=\"surname\">Alphonse de <\/span><span class=\"name\"><span class=\"caps\">LAMARTINE<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a> (1790-1869), Chambre des d\u00e9put\u00e9s, 21\u00a0ao\u00fbt 1835<\/p>\n<p class=\"source\"><cite>Archives parlementaires de 1787 \u00e0 1860<\/cite> (1898), Assembl\u00e9e nationale.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"ressi\">Le po\u00e8te s\u2019engage en politique sous la Monarchie de Juillet, comme Victor Hugo, Chateaubriand et nombre d\u2019auteurs plus ou moins connus. Mais \u00e0 l\u2019inverse des autres, il abandonnera son \u0153uvre litt\u00e9raire pour un engagement total et de plus en plus courageux, jusqu\u2019au gouvernement provisoire de la Deuxi\u00e8me R\u00e9publique. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Battu en 1831, \u00e9lu d\u00e9put\u00e9 en 1833, il refuse de se lier \u00e0 un parti et pr\u00e9tend si\u00e9ger \u00ab\u00a0au plafond\u00a0\u00bb. Il va se r\u00e9v\u00e9ler l\u2019un des meilleurs orateurs, en un temps o\u00f9 les hommes politiques ont le don d\u2019\u00e9loquence. Ce discours en faveur de la libert\u00e9 de la presse, entre bien d\u2019autres, reste c\u00e9l\u00e8bre.<\/p>\n<p class=\"panneau\">Toutes les citations qui suivent <br>sont comment\u00e9es dans nos <a href=\"https:\/\/www.histoire-en-citations.fr\/boutique\">Chroniques.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"citation-small\">\u00ab\u00a0Parler est bien, \u00e9crire est mieux\u00a0; imprimer est une excellente chose.\u00a0\u00bb<span id=\"1898\" class=\"cit-num\">1898<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"auteur\">Paul-Louis <span class=\"caps\">COURIER<\/span>, <em>Pamphlet des pamphlets<\/em> (1824)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"citation-small\">\u00ab\u00a0Une opinion ne devient pas criminelle en devenant publique.\u00a0\u00bb<span id=\"1971\" class=\"cit-num\">1971<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"auteur\">Comte de <span class=\"caps\">SERRE<\/span>, pr\u00e9ambule des trois lois favorables \u00e0 la libert\u00e9 de la presse sous la Restauration<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"citation-small\">\u00ab\u00a0La libert\u00e9 de la presse, c\u2019est l\u2019expansion et l\u2019impulsion de la vapeur dans l\u2019ordre intellectuel, force terrible mais vivifiante, qui porte et r\u00e9pand en un clin d\u2019\u0153il les faits et les id\u00e9es sur toute la face de la terre.\u00a0\u00bb<span id=\"1972\" class=\"cit-num\">1972<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"auteur\"><span class=\"caps\">GUIZOT<\/span>, <em>M\u00e9moires pour servir \u00e0 l\u2019histoire de mon temps<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"citation-small\">\u00ab\u00a0J\u2019ai aid\u00e9 \u00e0 conqu\u00e9rir celle de nos libert\u00e9s qui les vaut toutes, la libert\u00e9 de la presse.\u00a0\u00bb<span id=\"2003\" class=\"cit-num\">2003<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"auteur\"><span class=\"caps\">CHATEAUBRIAND<\/span>, <em>M\u00e9moires d\u2019outre-tombe<\/em> (posthume)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Monarchiste mod\u00e9r\u00e9, menant campagne pour les libert\u00e9s publiques dans <em>Le Journal des D\u00e9bats<\/em>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"citation-small\">\u00ab\u00a0La presse est un \u00e9l\u00e9ment jadis ignor\u00e9, une force autrefois inconnue, introduite maintenant dans le monde\u00a0; c\u2019est la parole \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9tat de foudre\u00a0: c\u2019est l\u2019\u00e9lectricit\u00e9 sociale. Plus vous pr\u00e9tendrez la comprimer, plus l\u2019explosion sera violente.\u00a0\u00bb<span id=\"2043\" class=\"cit-num\">2043<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"auteur\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.histoire-en-citations.fr\/indexation\/chateaubriand\"><span class=\"caps\">CHATEAUBRIAND<\/span><\/a>, <em>M\u00e9moires d\u2019outre-tombe<\/em> (posthume)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Les lois sur (contre) la presse vont h\u00e2ter la nouvelle r\u00e9volution.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"citation-small\">\u00ab\u00a0Haine vigoureuse de l\u2019anarchie, tendre et profond amour du peuple.\u00a0\u00bb<span id=\"2178\" class=\"cit-num\">2178<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"auteur\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.histoire-en-citations.fr\/indexation\/hugo\"><span class=\"caps\">HUGO<\/span><\/a>, devise de <em>L\u2019\u00c9v\u00e9nement<\/em>, juillet\u00a01848-septembre\u00a01851<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Le grand homme du si\u00e8cle cr\u00e9e ce journal pour d\u00e9fendre ses id\u00e9es, sous la Deuxi\u00e8me R\u00e9publique.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"border-radius: 2px;text-indent: 20px;width: auto;padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px;text-align: center;color: #ffffff;background: #bd081c  no-repeat scroll 3px 50% \/ 14px 14px;position: absolute;opacity: 1;z-index: 8675309;cursor: pointer;top: 1001px;left: 28px\">Enregistrer<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"border-radius: 2px;text-indent: 20px;width: auto;padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px;text-align: center;color: #ffffff;background: #bd081c  no-repeat scroll 3px 50% \/ 14px 14px;position: absolute;opacity: 1;z-index: 8675309;cursor: pointer\">Enregistrer<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"border-radius: 2px;text-indent: 20px;width: auto;padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px;text-align: center;color: #ffffff;background: #bd081c  no-repeat scroll 3px 50% \/ 14px 14px;position: absolute;opacity: 1;z-index: 8675309;cursor: pointer\">Enregistrer<\/span><\/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>\u00a0Petite histoire de la presse, troisi\u00e8me \u00e9pisode.Libert\u00e9 de la presse, une cause qui mobilise les meilleurs avocats litt\u00e9raires et politiques.Tout au long du XIXe si\u00e8cle, la libert\u00e9 est menac\u00e9e ou tout au moins surveill\u00e9e au fil des changements de r\u00e9gime et des politiques gouvernementales. Les plus grands noms militent naturellement pour la libert\u00e9. 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