{"id":4500,"date":"2017-03-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-16T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/2025\/06\/21\/chamfort-m-de-brissac-ivre-de-gentilhommerie-designait-souvent-dieu-par-cette-phrase-le-gentilhomme-den-haut\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T09:16:22","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T07:16:22","slug":"chamfort-m-de-brissac-ivre-de-gentilhommerie-designait-souvent-dieu-par-cette-phrase-le-gentilhomme-den-haut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/chamfort-m-de-brissac-ivre-de-gentilhommerie-designait-souvent-dieu-par-cette-phrase-le-gentilhomme-den-haut\/","title":{"rendered":"Chamfort : \u00ab M. de Brissac, ivre de gentilhommerie, d\u00e9signait souvent Dieu par cette phrase : &quot;le Gentilhomme d&#039;en haut&quot;.\u00a0\u00bb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Tous les privil\u00e9gi\u00e9s, toutes les classes sup\u00e9rieures sont vis\u00e9es par les nouveaux \u00ab\u00a0humoristes de droite\u00a0\u00bb qui succ\u00e8dent aux philosophes \u00ab\u00a0de gauche\u00a0\u00bb (ou pour le moins r\u00e9formateurs). L\u2019opinion publique, v\u00e9ritablement n\u00e9e au XVIIIe si\u00e8cle, est d\u00e9sormais \u00ab\u00a0\u00e9clair\u00e9e\u00a0\u00bb. \u00ab\u00a0M.\u00a0de Brissac, ivre de gentilhommerie, d\u00e9signait souvent Dieu par cette phrase\u00a0: \u00ab\u00a0le Gentilhomme d\u2019en haut\u00a0\u00bb.\u00a0\u00bb959 Nicolas de CHAMFORT (1740-1794), Pens\u00e9es, maximes et anecdotes (posthume, 1803)  La noblesse voit ses fondements contest\u00e9s par les philosophes et ses privil\u00e8ges menac\u00e9s par les r\u00e9formes. Elle n\u2019en demeure pas moins la condition indispensable pour acc\u00e9der aux \u00e9chelons sup\u00e9rieurs de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9\u00a0: parlements, b\u00e9n\u00e9fices eccl\u00e9siastiques, grades dans l\u2019arm\u00e9e et la marine, monde tr\u00e8s ferm\u00e9 de la cour.Chamfort, auteur de th\u00e9\u00e2tre, de po\u00e8mes et d\u2019articles politiques, grand bless\u00e9 de la vie, bient\u00f4t pers\u00e9cut\u00e9 pour ses id\u00e9es politiques et finalement suicid\u00e9, reste surtout comme un esprit caustique et un moraliste lucide. Il juge tout le XVIIIe, de la R\u00e9gence \u00e0 la R\u00e9volution\u00a0: certes diff\u00e9rent du si\u00e8cle pr\u00e9c\u00e9dent, mais avec des constantes propres \u00e0 l\u2019Ancien R\u00e9gime, la cour comme syst\u00e8me de gouvernement, l\u2019injustice sociale bas\u00e9e sur l\u2019in\u00e9galit\u00e9 entre classes. Toutes les citations qui suivent sont comment\u00e9es dans nos Chroniques. \u00ab\u00a0Les bourgeois, par une vanit\u00e9 ridicule, font de leur fille un fumier pour les terres des gens de qualit\u00e9.\u00a0\u00bb962 CHAMFORT  Alliances d\u2019int\u00e9r\u00eats ou m\u00e9salliances contre nature, mais pratique courante depuis la fin du si\u00e8cle de Louis\u00a0XIV\u00a0: bourgeoisie avide de gentilhommerie et noblesse \u00e0 court d\u2019argent. \u00ab\u00a0Qu\u2019est-ce qu\u2019un cardinal\u00a0? C\u2019est un pr\u00eatre habill\u00e9 de rouge qui a cent mille \u00e9cus du roi, pour se moquer de lui au nom du pape.\u00a0\u00bb960 CHAMFORT  Plus rien n\u2019est sacr\u00e9, m\u00eame la religion, d\u00e9consid\u00e9r\u00e9e par diverses pratiques et querelles. Le haut clerg\u00e9 a des pr\u00e9occupations plus la\u00efques que religieuses. \u00ab\u00a0Ils sont toujours en retard d\u2019une arm\u00e9e, d\u2019une ann\u00e9e et d\u2019une id\u00e9e.\u00a0\u00bb1248 RIVAROL jugeant la haute noblesse de son temps  \u00c9crivain royaliste et ardent d\u00e9fenseur du r\u00e9gime, il d\u00e9nonce pourtant l\u2019aveuglement suicidaire des notables oppos\u00e9s \u00e0 toute r\u00e9forme. \u00ab\u00a0Il ne faut pas \u00eatre plus royaliste que le roi.\u00a0\u00bb1204 Phrase en vogue sous Louis\u00a0XVI et devenue proverbe  Maxime invent\u00e9e \u00e0 la veille de la R\u00e9volution, pour critiquer les aristocrates d\u00e9fendant l\u2019id\u00e9e de monarchie et les int\u00e9r\u00eats du roi, avec plus d\u2019ardeur que le roi lui-m\u00eame. <\/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 Tous les privil\u00e9gi\u00e9s, toutes les classes sup\u00e9rieures sont vis\u00e9es par les nouveaux \u00ab\u00a0humoristes de droite\u00a0\u00bb qui succ\u00e8dent aux philosophes \u00ab\u00a0de gauche\u00a0\u00bb (ou pour le moins r\u00e9formateurs). 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