{"id":4380,"date":"2017-02-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-20T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/2025\/06\/21\/voltaire-me-voici-donc-en-ce-lieu-de-detresse-embastille-loge-fort-a-letroit\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T09:16:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T07:16:19","slug":"voltaire-me-voici-donc-en-ce-lieu-de-detresse-embastille-loge-fort-a-letroit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/voltaire-me-voici-donc-en-ce-lieu-de-detresse-embastille-loge-fort-a-letroit\/","title":{"rendered":"Voltaire : \u00ab Me voici donc en ce lieu de d\u00e9tresse, Embastill\u00e9, log\u00e9 fort \u00e0 l&#039;\u00e9troit&#8230;\u00a0\u00bb"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00c0 tout seigneur, tout honneur, Voltaire est \u00e0 coup s\u00fbr le roi de l\u2019humour au si\u00e8cle des Lumi\u00e8res. <\/p>\n<p>Il commence tr\u00e8s jeune, sous la R\u00e9gence, et sa longue vie le rend omnipr\u00e9sent. Populaire aujourd\u2019hui encore, il reste le plus aim\u00e9 de la \u00ab\u00a0bande des quatre\u00a0\u00bb philosophes.<\/p>\n<p>Montesquieu, son a\u00een\u00e9, m\u00e9rite lui aussi d\u2019\u00eatre cit\u00e9, faisant preuve de cet esprit critique qui sera le signe distinctif du si\u00e8cle des Lumi\u00e8res.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"citation\"><span class=\"enonce\">\u00ab\u00a0Me voici donc en ce lieu de d\u00e9tresse, Embastill\u00e9, log\u00e9 fort \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9troit, Ne dormant point, buvant chaud, Mangeant froid.\u00a0\u00bb<span id=\"1071\" class=\"cit-num\">1071<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"auteur\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.histoire-en-citations.fr\/indexation\/voltaire\"><span data-href=\"\/auteurs\/francois-marie-arouet-dit-voltaire\"><span class=\"author\"><span class=\"name\"><span class=\"caps\">VOLTAIRE<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a> (1694-1778), La Bastille (1717), <cite>Po\u00e9sies diverses<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Le R\u00e9gent a fait embastiller le jeune insolent. D\u00e9j\u00e0 exil\u00e9 deux fois en province, pour cause d\u2019\u00e9crits satiriques, l\u2019incorrigible frondeur a r\u00e9cidiv\u00e9 avec une \u00e9pigramme, \u00e9crite en latin \u2013 pour plus de prudence, mais \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9poque, tout le beau monde parle latin.<\/p>\n<p>Le R\u00e9gent, Dubois (son principal ministre), les princes du sang, les ducs, les b\u00e2tards, le Parlement, chaque faction paie ses libellistes pour tra\u00eener dans la boue la faction adverse. L\u2019impertinence devient un m\u00e9tier et l\u2019esprit de Voltaire, tant\u00f4t courtisan, tant\u00f4t courageux et parfois les deux en m\u00eame temps, excelle naturellement dans cette carri\u00e8re.<\/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\u00a0Monseigneur, je trouverais tr\u00e8s doux que Sa Majest\u00e9 daign\u00e2t se charger de ma nourriture, mais je supplie Votre Altesse de ne plus s\u2019occuper de mon logement.\u00a0\u00bb<span id=\"1072\" class=\"cit-num\">1072<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"auteur\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.histoire-en-citations.fr\/indexation\/voltaire\"><span class=\"caps\">VOLTAIRE<\/span><\/a> en 1718<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"ressi\">Au R\u00e9gent venu le lib\u00e9rer, apr\u00e8s un an pass\u00e9 \u00e0 la Bastille. Fran\u00e7ois-Marie Arouet, 24\u00a0ans, prend alors le nom de Voltaire.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"citation-small\">\u00ab\u00a0Voici le temps de l\u2019aimable R\u00e9gence,<br>Temps fortun\u00e9 marqu\u00e9 par la licence.\u00a0\u00bb<span id=\"1069\" class=\"cit-num\">1069<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"auteur\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.histoire-en-citations.fr\/indexation\/voltaire\"><span class=\"caps\">VOLTAIRE<\/span> <\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"ressi\">Le bel esprit s\u2019en accommode \u00e0 merveille\u00a0: il pr\u00e9f\u00e8rera toujours la licence libertine au vice pervers.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"citation-small\">\u00ab\u00a0Ah\u00a0! Ah\u00a0! Monsieur est Persan\u00a0! C\u2019est une chose bien extraordinaire\u00a0! Comment peut-on \u00eatre Persan\u00a0?\u00a0\u00bb<span id=\"1086\" class=\"cit-num\">1086<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"auteur\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.histoire-en-citations.fr\/indexation\/montesquieu\"><span class=\"caps\">MONTESQUIEU<\/span><\/a> en 1721<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"ressi\"><em>Les Lettres persanes<\/em>, perle d\u2019humour et succ\u00e8s de librairie qui lance l\u2019auteur surtout connu pour son <em>Esprit des Lois<\/em>.<\/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 \u00c0 tout seigneur, tout honneur, Voltaire est \u00e0 coup s\u00fbr le roi de l\u2019humour au si\u00e8cle des Lumi\u00e8res. Il commence tr\u00e8s jeune, sous la R\u00e9gence, et sa longue vie le rend omnipr\u00e9sent. Populaire aujourd&#8217;hui encore, il reste le plus aim\u00e9 de la \u00ab\u00a0bande des quatre\u00a0\u00bb philosophes. Montesquieu, son a\u00een\u00e9, m\u00e9rite lui aussi d\u2019\u00eatre cit\u00e9, [&#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":18,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1454],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chronique-citation-du-jour-francois-marie-arouet-dit-voltaire-siecle-des-lumieres"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4380","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=4380"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4381,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4380\/revisions\/4381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}