{"id":4480,"date":"2017-03-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-22T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/2025\/06\/21\/peguy-la-mystique-republicaine-cest-quand-on-mourait-pour-la-republique\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T09:16:23","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T07:16:23","slug":"peguy-la-mystique-republicaine-cest-quand-on-mourait-pour-la-republique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/peguy-la-mystique-republicaine-cest-quand-on-mourait-pour-la-republique\/","title":{"rendered":"P\u00e9guy : \u00ab La mystique r\u00e9publicaine, c&#039;est quand on mourait pour la R\u00e9publique&#8230;\u00a0\u00bb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 D\u00e9senchantement \u00e0 suivre, sous la Troisi\u00e8me R\u00e9publique\u2026 et les suivantes. Un po\u00e8te se distingue quand m\u00eame par son engagement qui le fait mourir au tout d\u00e9but de la Premi\u00e8re Guerre mondiale. \u00ab\u00a0La mystique r\u00e9publicaine, c\u2019est quand on mourait pour la R\u00e9publique, la politique r\u00e9publicaine, c\u2019est \u00e0 pr\u00e9sent qu\u2019on en vit.\u00a0\u00bb2556 Charles P\u00c9GUY (1873-1914), Notre jeunesse (1910)  Et \u00ab\u00a0l\u2019essentiel est que [\u2026] la mystique ne soit point d\u00e9vor\u00e9e par la politique \u00e0 laquelle elle a donn\u00e9 naissance\u00a0\u00bb. C\u2019est dire si P\u00e9guy, l\u2019humaniste qui se voudra toujours engag\u00e9, jusqu\u2019\u00e0 sa mort (aux premiers jours de la prochaine guerre), doit souffrir de la politique politicienne n\u00e9e sous la Troisi\u00e8me R\u00e9publique. De plus en plus isol\u00e9 par son intransigeance, patriote et dreyfusard, socialiste et chr\u00e9tien, suspect \u00e0 l\u2019\u00c9glise comme au parti socialiste et ignor\u00e9 jusqu\u2019\u00e0 sa mort du grand public, c\u2019est l\u2019un des rares intellectuels de l\u2019\u00e9poque \u00e9chappant aux \u00e9tiquettes. Il t\u00e9moigne \u00e0 la fois contre le mat\u00e9rialisme du monde moderne, la tyrannie des intellectuels de tout parti, les man\u0153uvres des politiques, la morale fig\u00e9e des bien-pensants. Le po\u00e8te appelle de tous ses v\u0153ux et de tous ses vers la \u00ab\u00a0g\u00e9n\u00e9ration de la revanche\u00a0\u00bb (contre l\u2019Allemagne). Lieutenant, il tombe \u00e0 la t\u00eate d\u2019une compagnie d\u2019infanterie, frapp\u00e9 d\u2019une balle au front, \u00e0 Villeroy, le 5\u00a0septembre, veille de la bataille de la Marne. Restent ses vers pr\u00e9monitoires, deux derniers alexandrins d\u2019un po\u00e8me qui en compte quelque 8\u00a0000\u00a0: \u00ab\u00a0Heureux ceux qui sont morts dans une juste guerre\u00a0! Heureux les \u00e9pis m\u00fbrs et les bl\u00e9s moissonn\u00e9s\u00a0!\u00a0\u00bb Toutes les citations qui suivent sont comment\u00e9es dans nos Chroniques. \u00ab\u00a0Le Parlement est le plus grand organisme qu\u2019on ait invent\u00e9 pour commettre des erreurs politiques, mais elles ont l\u2019avantage sup\u00e9rieur d\u2019\u00eatre r\u00e9parables, et ce, d\u00e8s que le pays en a la volont\u00e9.\u00a0\u00bb2603 CLEMENCEAU, S\u00e9nat, 22\u00a0juillet 1917  Aussi grand homme politique que politicien r\u00e9aliste. Quels qu\u2019en soient les d\u00e9fauts, il d\u00e9fend la d\u00e9mocratie\u00a0: \u00ab\u00a0Gloire aux pays o\u00f9 l\u2019on parle, honte aux pays o\u00f9 l\u2019on se tait.\u00a0\u00bb \u00ab\u00a0La politique, ce n\u2019est pas de r\u00e9soudre les probl\u00e8mes, mais de faire taire ceux qui les posent.\u00a0\u00bb2875 Henri QUEUILLE, nouveau pr\u00e9sident du Conseil, septembre\u00a01948  La formule refl\u00e8te une tendance tr\u00e8s Quatri\u00e8me R\u00e9publique. Venu de la Troisi\u00e8me, ministre pr\u00e8s de vingt fois avant 1940, il a pour m\u00e9thode de contourner les difficult\u00e9s. Cet immobilisme\u00a0d\u00e9cr\u00e9dibilise le personnel politique. \u00ab\u00a0L\u2019opinion publique [\u2026] est souvent une force politique, et cette force n\u2019est pr\u00e9vue par aucune constitution.\u00a0\u00bb2839 Alfred SAUVY, L\u2019Opinion publique (1956)  N\u00e9e au si\u00e8cle des Lumi\u00e8res et incontestable progr\u00e8s d\u00e9mocratique, l\u2019opinion publique sond\u00e9e autant que manipul\u00e9e risque de faire la loi et pousse au populisme. <\/p>\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 D\u00e9senchantement \u00e0 suivre, sous la Troisi\u00e8me R\u00e9publique&#8230; et les suivantes. Un po\u00e8te se distingue quand m\u00eame par son engagement qui le fait mourir au tout d\u00e9but de la Premi\u00e8re Guerre mondiale. \u00ab\u00a0La mystique r\u00e9publicaine, c&#8217;est quand on mourait pour la R\u00e9publique, la politique r\u00e9publicaine, c&#8217;est \u00e0 pr\u00e9sent qu&#8217;on en vit.\u00a0\u00bb2556 Charles P\u00c9GUY (1873-1914), Notre [&#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":7,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1510],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charles-peguy-chronique-citation-du-jour-troisieme-republique"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4480","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=4480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4481,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4480\/revisions\/4481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}