{"id":4375,"date":"2017-02-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-22T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/2025\/06\/21\/chamfort-un-homme-desprit-me-disait-lautre-jour-que-le-gouvernement-de-la-france-etait-une-monarchie-absolue-temperee-par-des-chansons\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T09:16:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T07:16:19","slug":"chamfort-un-homme-desprit-me-disait-lautre-jour-que-le-gouvernement-de-la-france-etait-une-monarchie-absolue-temperee-par-des-chansons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/chamfort-un-homme-desprit-me-disait-lautre-jour-que-le-gouvernement-de-la-france-etait-une-monarchie-absolue-temperee-par-des-chansons\/","title":{"rendered":"Chamfort : \u00ab Un homme d&#039;esprit me disait l&#039;autre jour que le gouvernement de la France \u00e9tait une monarchie absolue temp\u00e9r\u00e9e par des chansons.\u00a0\u00bb"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>L\u2019esprit et l\u2019humour ne sont pas r\u00e9serv\u00e9s aux professionnels ni aux lettr\u00e9s de la bourgeoisie, nouvelle classe de privil\u00e9gi\u00e9s. <\/p>\n<p>La rue, le peuple se r\u00e9v\u00e8le inventif et surdou\u00e9. Souvent cruel, avec la mode des \u00e9pigrammes et des \u00e9pitaphes satiriques (anonymes, en raison de la censure).<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"citation\"><span class=\"enonce\">\u00ab\u00a0Un homme d\u2019esprit me disait l\u2019autre jour que le gouvernement de la France \u00e9tait une monarchie absolue temp\u00e9r\u00e9e par des chansons.\u00a0\u00bb<span id=\"993\" class=\"cit-num\">993<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"auteur\"><span data-href=\"\/auteurs\/nicolas-de-chamfort\"><span class=\"author\"><span class=\"surname\">Nicolas de <\/span><span class=\"name\"><span class=\"caps\">CHAMFORT<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> (1740-1794), <cite>Pens\u00e9es, maximes et anecdotes<\/cite> (posthume, 1803)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"ressi\">Personnage attachant dont la vie est en partie inconnue et en tout cas peu heureuse, marqu\u00e9e par la maladie (syphilis), le deuil d\u2019un grand amour, la pers\u00e9cution politique et un suicide rat\u00e9. Auteur de th\u00e9\u00e2tre, de po\u00e8mes et d\u2019articles politiques, il reste surtout comme un moraliste juge de tout le si\u00e8cle, de la R\u00e9gence \u00e0 la R\u00e9volution, certes diff\u00e9rent du si\u00e8cle pr\u00e9c\u00e9dent, mais avec des constantes\u00a0: la cour comme syst\u00e8me de gouvernement, l\u2019injustice sociale bas\u00e9e sur l\u2019in\u00e9galit\u00e9 entre classes.<\/p>\n<p>Au si\u00e8cle de Louis\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">XIV<\/span>, la chanson (le plus souvent anonyme) \u00e9tait l\u2019une des rares formes d\u2019opposition possibles. Au si\u00e8cle des Lumi\u00e8res, elle garde cette fonction. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.histoire-en-citations.fr\/indexation\/diderot\">Diderot<\/a> parlant du peuple dans ses <em>Principes de politique des souverains<\/em> \u00e9crit\u00a0: \u00ab\u00a0Il faut lui permettre la satire et la plainte\u00a0: la haine renferm\u00e9e est plus dangereuse que la haine ouverte.\u00a0\u00bb Avec la masse des pamphlets et libelles pol\u00e9miques et parfois orduriers dont l\u2019\u00e9poque se fit l\u2019\u00e9cho, on a pu parler de ces \u00ab\u00a0basses Lumi\u00e8res\u00a0\u00bb qui sapent les bases du r\u00e9gime presque aussi s\u00fbrement que les pens\u00e9es philosophiques.<\/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\u00a0On dit que l\u2019homme est un animal sociable. Sur ce pied-l\u00e0, il me para\u00eet que le Fran\u00e7ais est plus homme qu\u2019un autre, c\u2019est l\u2019homme par excellence\u00a0; car il semble fait uniquement pour la soci\u00e9t\u00e9.\u00a0\u00bb<span id=\"975\" class=\"cit-num\">975<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"auteur\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.histoire-en-citations.fr\/indexation\/montesquieu\"><span class=\"caps\">MONTESQUIEU<\/span><\/a>, <em>Lettres Persanes<\/em> (1721)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"ressi\">Mode des caf\u00e9s, des salons, des spectacles. Chamfort confirme, \u00e0 la veille de la R\u00e9volution\u00a0: \u00ab\u00a0Les gens du monde ne sont pas plut\u00f4t attroup\u00e9s qu\u2019ils se croient en soci\u00e9t\u00e9.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"citation-small\">\u00ab\u00a0On a d\u00e9j\u00e0 dit que le pape \u00e9tait le meilleur cuisinier qu\u2019il y eut, qu\u2019il avait fait d\u2019un maquereau un rouget.\u00a0\u00bb<span id=\"1087\" class=\"cit-num\">1087<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"auteur\"><span class=\"caps\">BARBIER<\/span>, <em>Journal historique et anecdotique du r\u00e8gne de Louis\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">XV<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"ressi\">Vis\u00e9 par ce <a href=\"http:\/\/www.histoire-en-citations.fr\/indexation\/bestiaire\">bestiaire<\/a> \u00e0 double sens, l\u2019abb\u00e9 Dubois, pass\u00e9 de sous-diacre \u00e0 archev\u00eaque de Cambrai en quelques semaines. La religion n\u2019est plus respect\u00e9e, ni respectable.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"citation-small\">\u00ab\u00a0Dubois, gard\u00e9 par Cerb\u00e8re,<br>Dit en voyant le R\u00e9gent\u00a0:<br>\u2014 Monsieur, que venez-vous faire\u00a0?<br>Ce pays est sans argent.\u00a0\u00bb<span id=\"1092\" class=\"cit-num\">1092<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"auteur\"><em>Sur la mort du R\u00e9gent<\/em> (1723), chanson<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"ressi\">Dubois meurt le 10\u00a0ao\u00fbt 1723, le R\u00e9gent le suit de peu, le 10\u00a0d\u00e9cembre. Fin de la R\u00e9gence. Louis\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">XV<\/span> a 13\u00a0ans.<\/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 L\u2019esprit et l\u2019humour ne sont pas r\u00e9serv\u00e9s aux professionnels ni aux lettr\u00e9s de la bourgeoisie, nouvelle classe de privil\u00e9gi\u00e9s. La rue, le peuple se r\u00e9v\u00e8le inventif et surdou\u00e9. Souvent cruel, avec la mode des \u00e9pigrammes et des \u00e9pitaphes satiriques (anonymes, en raison de la censure). \u00ab\u00a0Un homme d&#8217;esprit me disait l&#8217;autre jour que le [&#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":8,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1815],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chansons-citation-du-jour-gouvernement-de-la-france-homme-desprit-la-force-des-idees-nouvelles-monarchie-absolue-nicolas-de-chamfort-siecle-des-lumieres"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4375","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=4375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4376,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4375\/revisions\/4376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}