{"id":4377,"date":"2018-02-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-06T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/2025\/06\/21\/montesquieu-on-apprete-le-cafe-de-telle-maniere-quil-donne-de-lesprit-a-ceux-qui-en-prennent\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T09:17:02","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T07:17:02","slug":"montesquieu-on-apprete-le-cafe-de-telle-maniere-quil-donne-de-lesprit-a-ceux-qui-en-prennent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/montesquieu-on-apprete-le-cafe-de-telle-maniere-quil-donne-de-lesprit-a-ceux-qui-en-prennent\/","title":{"rendered":"Montesquieu : \u00ab On appr\u00eate le caf\u00e9 de telle mani\u00e8re qu&#039;il donne de l&#039;esprit \u00e0 ceux qui en prennent.\u00a0\u00bb"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Charles-Louis de Secondat, baron de la Br\u00e8de et de Montesquieu, homme heureux dans son si\u00e8cle \u00e9pris de bonheur. <\/p>\n<p>Premier-n\u00e9 des philosophes dits des Lumi\u00e8res, magistrat fortun\u00e9, il \u00e9crit pour se distraire, avant de se consacrer tout entier \u00e0 son tr\u00e8s s\u00e9rieux <em>Esprit des lois<\/em> (1748). La marquise du Deffand dira (bien \u00e0 tort) que c\u2019est \u00ab\u00a0de l\u2019esprit sur les lois\u00a0\u00bb.<\/p>\n<p>L\u2019esprit est ce qui frappe d\u2019abord au <span class=\"caps\">XVIII<\/span>e \u2013 forme d\u2019humour l\u00e9ger qui parcourt le si\u00e8cle, m\u00eame si le trait devient plus noir, voire f\u00e9roce, en approchant de l\u2019\u00e9pilogue, la \u00ab\u00a0lutte finale\u00a0\u00bb (R\u00e9volution).<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"citation\"><span class=\"enonce\">\u00ab\u00a0On appr\u00eate le caf\u00e9 de telle mani\u00e8re qu\u2019il donne de l\u2019esprit \u00e0 ceux qui en prennent.\u00a0\u00bb<span id=\"978\" class=\"cit-num\">978<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"auteur\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.histoire-en-citations.fr\/indexation\/montesquieu\"><span data-href=\"\/auteurs\/baron-de-la-brede-et-de-montesquieu\"><span class=\"author\"><span class=\"name\"><span class=\"caps\">MONTESQUIEU<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a> (1689-1755), <cite>Lettres Persanes<\/cite> (1721)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"ressi\">L\u2019esprit de Montesquieu a commenc\u00e9 par s\u2019exercer dans un petit ouvrage plaisant, publi\u00e9 \u00e0 Amsterdam, anonyme et \u00ab\u00a0persan\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0: trois pr\u00e9cautions valent mieux qu\u2019une, pour d\u00e9jouer la censure\u00a0!<\/p>\n<p class=\"ressi\">Le masque ne trompe personne et le subterfuge rend l\u2019auteur c\u00e9l\u00e8bre\u00a0: sa r\u00e9putation de bel esprit est faite, et sa critique des m\u0153urs contemporaines, fort hardie sous l\u2019apparence badine, s\u00e9duit le public des salons. <\/p>\n<p>La R\u00e9gence, le Procope, Gradot, Laurent\u00a0: c\u2019est la grande mode des caf\u00e9s o\u00f9 le caf\u00e9 fait fureur \u2013 on en compte 300 \u00e0 Paris, en 1715. Les clubs, plus ferm\u00e9s, institution typiquement anglaise, s\u00e9duisent la France anglophile jusqu\u2019\u00e0 l\u2019anglomanie et sociable comme jamais. Cependant que les salons se multiplient, \u00e0 Paris et en province, \u00e0 mesure que la cour de Versailles perd son h\u00e9g\u00e9monie\u00a0: d\u2019abord litt\u00e9raires et mondains, puis philosophiques, tous tenus par des femmes (Mme\u00a0de Lambert, Mme\u00a0de Tencin, Mme\u00a0du Deffand, Mme\u00a0Geoffrin, Mlle\u00a0de Lespinasse), lieux de rencontre et de conversation o\u00f9 les id\u00e9es nouvelles circulent et les r\u00e9putations se font et se d\u00e9font.<\/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\u00a0La fureur de la plupart des Fran\u00e7ais, c\u2019est d\u2019avoir de l\u2019esprit, et la fureur de ceux qui veulent avoir de l\u2019esprit, c\u2019est de faire des livres.\u00a0\u00bb<span id=\"979\" class=\"cit-num\">979<\/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\">Esprit fran\u00e7ais, variante litt\u00e9raire et distingu\u00e9e de l\u2019humour, trait typique du si\u00e8cle qui ne fera que se renforcer, lui donnant son unit\u00e9 par-del\u00e0 d\u2019extr\u00eames diversit\u00e9s et complexit\u00e9s, contrastes et contradictions.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"citation-small\">\u00ab\u00a0Dieu ne tire pas plus rapidement les hommes du n\u00e9ant.\u00a0\u00bb<span id=\"1082\" class=\"cit-num\">1082<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"auteur\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.histoire-en-citations.fr\/indexation\/montesquieu\"><span class=\"caps\">MONTESQUIEU<\/span><\/a> parlant du syst\u00e8me de Law en 1719, Lettres Persanes (1721)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"ressi\">Le Syst\u00e8me fait des miracles et permet de tout esp\u00e9rer\u00a0: \u00ab\u00a0Que de valets servis par leurs camarades, et peut-\u00eatre demain par leurs ma\u00eetres\u00a0!\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"citation-small\">\u00ab\u00a0Lundi, je pris des actions,<br>Mardi, je gagnai des millions,<br>Mercredi, je pris \u00e9quipage,<br>Jeudi, j\u2019agrandis mon m\u00e9nage,<br>Vendredi, je m\u2019en fus au bal,<br>Et samedi, \u00e0 l\u2019h\u00f4pital.\u00a0\u00bb<span id=\"1083\" class=\"cit-num\">1083<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"auteur\"><em>Lundi je pris des actions<\/em> (1720), chanson de rue<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"ressi\">L\u2019\u00e9difice fragile du Syst\u00e8me s\u2019effondre en 1720, au terme d\u2019un emballement affol\u00e9 du cr\u00e9dit.<\/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 Charles-Louis de Secondat, baron de la Br\u00e8de et de Montesquieu, homme heureux dans son si\u00e8cle \u00e9pris de bonheur. Premier-n\u00e9 des philosophes dits des Lumi\u00e8res, magistrat fortun\u00e9, il \u00e9crit pour se distraire, avant de se consacrer tout entier \u00e0 son tr\u00e8s s\u00e9rieux Esprit des lois (1748). La marquise du Deffand dira (bien \u00e0 tort) que [&#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":15,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-citation-du-jour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4377","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=4377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4378,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4377\/revisions\/4378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}