{"id":4518,"date":"2017-04-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-31T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/2025\/06\/21\/corneille\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T09:16:24","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T07:16:24","slug":"corneille","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/corneille\/","title":{"rendered":"Corneille"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/pierre_corneille_2.jpg\" alt=\"pierre corneille citation\" title=\"pierre corneille citation\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto\" width=\"250\" height=\"251\"><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"citation-small\">\u00ab\u00a0En vain, contre <em>Le Cid<\/em>, un ministre se ligue\u00a0; Tout Paris pour Chim\u00e8ne a les yeux de Rodrigue.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<p class=\"auteur\">Nicolas <span class=\"caps\">BOILEAU<\/span> (1636-1711),<em> Satire <span class=\"caps\">IX<\/span><\/em> (1668)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>C\u2019est la gloire \u00e0 30 ans pour le plus c\u00e9l\u00e8bre prot\u00e9g\u00e9 du cardinal, Corneille, dont la pi\u00e8ce est cr\u00e9\u00e9e, fin d\u00e9cembre 1636, dans le th\u00e9\u00e2tre priv\u00e9 de Richelieu, et en janvier 1637, au th\u00e9\u00e2tre du Marais. Ce qui explique l\u2019une et l\u2019autre date donn\u00e9es, selon les sources, pour sa cr\u00e9ation.<\/p>\n<p>La premi\u00e8re grande trag\u00e9die classique (ou plut\u00f4t, tragicom\u00e9die) est ovationn\u00e9e pour son g\u00e9nie propre et pour ses allusions \u00e0 l\u2019actualit\u00e9 \u2013 le combat contre les Maures fait \u00e9cho \u00e0 l\u2019invasion espagnole de cette ann\u00e9e. Louis <span class=\"caps\">XIII<\/span> anoblit l\u2019auteur.<\/p>\n<p>Mais Richelieu ne lui pardonne pas son refus de participer \u00e0 une soci\u00e9t\u00e9 de cinq auteurs (avec Boisrobert, Colletet, L\u2019Estoile et Rotrou) charg\u00e9s de composer des pi\u00e8ces sur ses id\u00e9es\u00a0! C\u2019est le petit c\u00f4t\u00e9 d\u2019un grand homme, par ailleurs passionn\u00e9 de th\u00e9\u00e2tre.<\/p>\n<p>Le cardinal forme une cabale et l\u2019Acad\u00e9mie, docile, suit, accable le jeune po\u00e8te de critiques jalouses et de propos p\u00e9dants. Corneille en souffre. Mais comme l\u2019\u00e9crira Boileau\u00a0: \u00ab\u00a0L\u2019Acad\u00e9mie en corps a beau le censurer, \/ Le public en r\u00e9volte s\u2019obstine \u00e0 l\u2019admirer.\u00a0\u00bb La \u00ab\u00a0querelle du Cid\u00a0\u00bb va \u00e9mouvoir Paris, toute l\u2019ann\u00e9e 1637.<\/p>\n<p>Quand Boileau \u00e9crit pour vanter le grand Corneille, la faveur du public s\u2019est d\u00e9tourn\u00e9e de lui et Racine est le nouveau trag\u00e9dien du si\u00e8cle, sous un autre r\u00e8gne, encore plus riche au plan culturel.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"citation-small\">\u00ab\u00a0Qu\u2019on parle mal ou bien du fameux cardinal<br>Ma prose ni mes vers n\u2019en diront jamais rien\u00a0:<br>Il m\u2019a fait trop de bien pour en dire du mal,<br>Il m\u2019a fait trop de mal pour en dire du bien.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<p class=\"auteur\">Pierre <span class=\"caps\">CORNEILLE<\/span> (1606-1684),<em> Po\u00e9sies diverses<\/em> (posthume)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Auteur le plus c\u00e9l\u00e8bre de son temps, apr\u00e8s le triomphe de ses trois r\u00e9centes trag\u00e9dies (<em>Horace, Cinna, Polyeucte<\/em>), il compose ce quatrain, \u00e0 l\u2019occasion de la mort du cardinal de Richelieu.<\/p>\n<p>Il se rappelle la protection dont il a b\u00e9n\u00e9fici\u00e9, alors qu\u2019il \u00e9tait totalement inconnu et que le cardinal fit ouvrir un second th\u00e9\u00e2tre \u00e0 Paris (Le Marais, rival de l\u2019H\u00f4tel de Bourgogne) pour jouer ses premi\u00e8res pi\u00e8ces. Mais il ne peut oublier la m\u00e9chante cabale mont\u00e9e contre lui par le cardinal et la querelle du Cid qui s\u2019ensuivit, en 1637.<\/p>\n<p>Le m\u00e9c\u00e9nat artistique, devenu v\u00e9ritable politique culturelle, va encourager les cr\u00e9ateurs dans tous les domaines\u00a0: lettres, th\u00e9\u00e2tre, musique, peinture, architecture. L\u2019art classique nait \u00e0 cette \u00e9poque, contribuant au rayonnement de la France en Europe.<\/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>\u00ab\u00a0En vain, contre Le Cid, un ministre se ligue&nbsp;; Tout Paris pour Chim\u00e8ne a les yeux de Rodrigue.\u00a0\u00bb Nicolas BOILEAU (1636-1711), Satire IX (1668) C\u2019est la gloire \u00e0 30 ans pour le plus c\u00e9l\u00e8bre prot\u00e9g\u00e9 du cardinal, Corneille, dont la pi\u00e8ce est cr\u00e9\u00e9e, fin d\u00e9cembre 1636, dans le th\u00e9\u00e2tre priv\u00e9 de Richelieu, et en janvier [&#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":323,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4518","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\/4518","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=4518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4520,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4518\/revisions\/4520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}