{"id":4373,"date":"2017-02-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-23T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/2025\/06\/21\/hugo-voltaire-alors-regnait-ce-singe-de-genie-chez-lhomme-en-mission-par-le-diable-envoye\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T09:16:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T07:16:19","slug":"hugo-voltaire-alors-regnait-ce-singe-de-genie-chez-lhomme-en-mission-par-le-diable-envoye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/hugo-voltaire-alors-regnait-ce-singe-de-genie-chez-lhomme-en-mission-par-le-diable-envoye\/","title":{"rendered":"Hugo : \u00ab Voltaire alors r\u00e9gnait, ce singe de g\u00e9nie, chez l&#039;homme en mission par le diable envoy\u00e9.\u00a0\u00bb"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>R\u00e8gne de <a href=\"http:\/\/www.histoire-en-citations.fr\/indexation\/louis-xv\">Louis <span class=\"caps\">XV<\/span><\/a> (1723-1774). <\/p>\n<p>Le roi est trop jeune et peu press\u00e9 de r\u00e9gner personnellement, jusqu\u2019en 1743 \u2013 apr\u00e8s, il r\u00e8gnera peu et plut\u00f4t mal.<\/p>\n<p>C\u2019est v\u00e9ritablement le \u00ab\u00a0si\u00e8cle de Voltaire\u00a0\u00bb. Il en est l\u2019acteur principal et l\u2019auteur le plus cit\u00e9, pour son humour et pas seulement\u00a0: son g\u00e9nie, ses \u00e9crits en tous genres, ses combats de philosophe (intellectuel engag\u00e9 avant la lettre). Il sera tour \u00e0 tour admir\u00e9 et d\u00e9test\u00e9 et les deux \u00e0 la fois, nombre de contemporains se situant par rapport \u00e0 lui. Un personnage incontournable de l\u2019Histoire.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"citation\"><span class=\"enonce\">\u00ab\u00a0Voltaire alors r\u00e9gnait, ce singe de g\u00e9nie, Chez l\u2019homme en mission par le diable envoy\u00e9.\u00a0\u00bb\u202f<span id=\"1017\" class=\"cit-num\">1017<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"auteur\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.histoire-en-citations.fr\/indexation\/hugo\"><span data-href=\"\/auteurs\/victor-hugo\"><span class=\"author\"><span class=\"surname\">Victor <\/span><span class=\"name\"><span class=\"caps\">HUGO<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a> (1802-1885), <cite>Les Rayons et les ombres<\/cite> (1840)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"ressi\">L\u2019hommage nuanc\u00e9 s\u2019explique\u00a0: si diff\u00e9rents que soient les deux personnages, si oppos\u00e9s m\u00eame leur nature, ils furent l\u2019un et l\u2019autre \u00e0 l\u2019image de leur\u00a0temps, entrant vivants dans la l\u00e9gende apr\u00e8s s\u2019\u00eatre jet\u00e9s dans toutes les luttes. <\/p>\n<p>Le Panth\u00e9on les r\u00e9unit \u00e0 juste titre\u00a0: aux grands hommes, la patrie reconnaissante.<\/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\u00a0D\u2019autres cyniques \u00e9tonn\u00e8rent la vertu, Voltaire \u00e9tonne le vice [\u2026] Paris le couronna, Sodome l\u2019e\u00fbt banni.\u00a0\u00bb\u202f<span id=\"1018\" class=\"cit-num\">1018<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"auteur\"><span class=\"caps\">DE<\/span> <span class=\"caps\">MAISTRE<\/span>, <em>Les Soir\u00e9es de Saint-P\u00e9tersbourg<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"ressi\">Le plus dr\u00f4le\u00a0? C\u2019est dit sans humour, par ce conservateur donneur de le\u00e7ons. Vice et vertu, valeurs \u00e0 suivre jusque sous la R\u00e9volution.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"citation-small\">\u00ab\u00a0Mon nom, je le commence, et vous finissez le v\u00f4tre.\u00a0\u00bb\u202f<span id=\"1096\" class=\"cit-num\">1096<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"auteur\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.histoire-en-citations.fr\/indexation\/voltaire\"><span class=\"caps\">VOLTAIRE<\/span><\/a> d\u00e9fendant son pseudo, face au chevalier de Rohan-Chabot, janvier\u00a01726<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"ressi\">Un noble m\u00e9prise ce bourgeois \u00ab\u00a0qui n\u2019a m\u00eame pas un nom.\u00a0\u00bb La sc\u00e8ne se passe \u00e0 la Com\u00e9die-Fran\u00e7aise. Belle insolence, au risque de la prison, l\u2019exil.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"citation-small\">\u00ab\u00a0Oh\u00a0! le bon temps que ce si\u00e8cle de fer\u00a0!\u00a0\u00bb\u202f<span id=\"1019\" class=\"cit-num\">1019<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"auteur\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.histoire-en-citations.fr\/indexation\/voltaire\"><span class=\"caps\">VOLTAIRE<\/span><\/a>, <em>Le Mondain<\/em> (1736)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"ressi\">Il l\u2019adore, oui, mais il reconna\u00eet ses d\u00e9fauts les plus choquants \u2013 l\u2019intol\u00e9rance et l\u2019injustice \u00e0 tous les niveaux.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"citation-small\">\u00ab\u00a0La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 est compos\u00e9e de deux grandes classes\u00a0: ceux qui ont plus de d\u00eeners que d\u2019app\u00e9tit et ceux qui ont plus d\u2019app\u00e9tit que de d\u00eeners.\u00a0\u00bb\u202f<span id=\"984\" class=\"cit-num\">984<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"auteur\"><span class=\"caps\">CHAMFORT<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"ressi\">V\u00e9rit\u00e9 qui s\u2019impose plus cruellement \u00e0 la fin de l\u2019Ancien R\u00e9gime\u00a0: les riches (privil\u00e9gi\u00e9s) se sont enrichis, les pauvres (surimpos\u00e9s) ne profitent pas de la prosp\u00e9rit\u00e9 \u00e9conomique.<\/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>\u00a0 R\u00e8gne de Louis XV (1723-1774). Le roi est trop jeune et peu press\u00e9 de r\u00e9gner personnellement, jusqu\u2019en 1743 &#8211; apr\u00e8s, il r\u00e8gnera peu et plut\u00f4t mal.C\u2019est v\u00e9ritablement le \u00ab\u00a0si\u00e8cle de Voltaire\u00a0\u00bb. Il en est l\u2019acteur principal et l\u2019auteur le plus cit\u00e9, pour son humour et pas seulement\u00a0: son g\u00e9nie, ses \u00e9crits en tous genres, [&#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":11,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1816],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-citation-du-jour-francois-marie-arouet-dit-voltaire-siecle-des-lumieres-victor-hugo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4373","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=4373"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4374,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4373\/revisions\/4374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}