{"id":4521,"date":"2017-03-31T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-30T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/2025\/06\/21\/royer-collard-la-democratie-coule-a-pleins-bords-dans-la-france-telle-que-les-siecles-et-les-evenements-lont-faite\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T09:16:24","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T07:16:24","slug":"royer-collard-la-democratie-coule-a-pleins-bords-dans-la-france-telle-que-les-siecles-et-les-evenements-lont-faite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/royer-collard-la-democratie-coule-a-pleins-bords-dans-la-france-telle-que-les-siecles-et-les-evenements-lont-faite\/","title":{"rendered":"Royer-Collard : \u00ab La d\u00e9mocratie coule \u00e0 pleins bords dans la France, telle que les si\u00e8cles et les \u00e9v\u00e9nements l&#039;ont faite.\u00a0\u00bb"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Pass\u00e9 la R\u00e9volution, ses plus belles heures et ses pires exc\u00e8s, la d\u00e9mocratie ne s\u2019installe pas si facilement que pr\u00e9vu en France. L\u2019apprentissage est long, la route accident\u00e9e, les r\u00e9sistances impr\u00e9vues et les conditions pas toujours r\u00e9unies. Optimisme et volontarisme politiques vont pourtant de pair avec les paradoxes de l\u2019histoire.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"citation\"><span class=\"enonce\">\u00ab\u00a0La d\u00e9mocratie coule \u00e0 pleins bords dans la France, telle que les si\u00e8cles et les \u00e9v\u00e9nements l\u2019ont faite.\u00a0\u00bb<span id=\"1990\" class=\"cit-num\">1990<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"auteur\"><span data-href=\"\/auteurs\/pierre-paul-royer-collard\"><span class=\"author\"><span class=\"surname\">Pierre-Paul <\/span><span class=\"name\"><span class=\"caps\">ROYER<\/span>\u2013<span class=\"caps\">COLLARD<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> (1763-1845), Chambre des d\u00e9put\u00e9s, 22\u00a0janvier 1822<\/p>\n<p class=\"source\"><cite>De la libert\u00e9 de la presse\u00a0: discours<\/cite> (posthume, 1949), Pierre-Paul Royer-Collard.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"ressi\">Ce mot est repris du comte de Serre, ministre de la Justice (depuis 1818) donnant \u00e0 la presse d\u2019opinion une <a href=\"http:\/\/www.histoire-en-citations.fr\/indexation\/liberte\">libert\u00e9<\/a> dont elle allait user, jusqu\u2019\u00e0 la prochaine r\u00e9volution mettant fin \u00e0 la Restauration. Ainsi va l\u2019histoire, et la succession des r\u00e9gimes politiques au <span class=\"caps\">XIX<\/span>e si\u00e8cle.<\/p>\n<p>Royer-Collard, chef du parti des Doctrinaires, constitutionnel favorable \u00e0 la Charte est, avec Guizot et de Serre, hostile aux ultraroyalistes comme aux \u00ab\u00a0ind\u00e9pendants\u00a0\u00bb lib\u00e9raux, bonapartistes ou r\u00e9publicains. <\/p>\n<p>Le mot p\u00e8che quand m\u00eame par exc\u00e8s d\u2019optimisme, en cette p\u00e9riode o\u00f9 les ultras au pouvoir tentent de r\u00e9duire comme peau de chagrin la d\u00e9mocratie. Les masses populaires, surtout en province, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent de la vie politique dont elles sont exclues, au nom d\u2019une loi \u00e9lectorale qui r\u00e9tr\u00e9cit de plus en plus le pays l\u00e9gal. Les milieux intellectuels, la petite bourgeoisie et les artisans sont eux aussi \u00e9cart\u00e9s par le cens, cet imp\u00f4t \u00e0 payer pour pouvoir voter ou \u00eatre \u00e9lu, et se sentent l\u00e9gitimement frustr\u00e9s.<\/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\u00a0Le propre de la d\u00e9mocratie est de s\u2019incarner dans un homme.\u00a0\u00bb<span id=\"2215\" class=\"cit-num\">2215<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"auteur\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.histoire-en-citations.fr\/indexation\/napoleon-iii\">Louis-Napol\u00e9on <span class=\"caps\">BONAPARTE<\/span><\/a> \u00e0 la veille du coup d\u2019\u00c9tat du 2 d\u00e9cembre 1851<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Jour bien choisi, anniversaire d\u2019Austerlitz, fameuse victoire de <a href=\"http:\/\/www.histoire-en-citations.fr\/indexation\/napoleon\">Napol\u00e9on<\/a>. Il a voulu ardemment ce coup d\u2019\u00c9tat, mais Louis-Napol\u00e9on en ressentira une r\u00e9elle culpabilit\u00e9\u00a0: c\u2019est sa \u00ab\u00a0tunique de Nessus\u00a0\u00bb, dira l\u2019imp\u00e9ratrice Eug\u00e9nie.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"citation-small\">\u00ab\u00a0La r\u00e9publique, c\u2019est l\u2019in\u00e9vitable et vous devriez l\u2019accepter. Vous devriez prendre votre parti de l\u2019existence dans le pays d\u2019une d\u00e9mocratie invincible \u00e0 qui restera certainement le dernier mot.\u00a0\u00bb<span id=\"2442\" class=\"cit-num\">2442<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"auteur\">L\u00e9on <span class=\"caps\">GAMBETTA<\/span>, Chambre des d\u00e9put\u00e9s, 5\u00a0ao\u00fbt 1874<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Il propose une constitution r\u00e9publicaine. L\u00e9gitimistes et conservateurs n\u2019en veulent pas, mais le \u00ab\u00a0commis voyageur de la R\u00e9publique\u00a0\u00bb va rallier une partie de la gauche \u00e0 la cause du seul r\u00e9gime possible \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9poque.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"citation-small\">\u00ab\u00a0Que voulez-vous, Monsieur le pr\u00e9fet, soixante-dix ans de d\u00e9mocratie, \u00e7a se paie.\u00a0\u00bb<span id=\"2745\" class=\"cit-num\">2745<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"auteur\">Charles <span class=\"caps\">MAURRAS<\/span>, au pr\u00e9fet de la Vienne, juin\u00a01940<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>D\u00e9faite de la France, am\u00e8re victoire pour l\u2019homme de <em>l\u2019Action fran\u00e7aise<\/em>, persuad\u00e9 que la d\u00e9mocratie, c\u2019est la mort politique d\u2019un pays\u00a0! Aussi a-t-il soutenu Mussolini, Franco. Mais pas Hitler\u2026<\/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 Pass\u00e9 la R\u00e9volution, ses plus belles heures et ses pires exc\u00e8s, la d\u00e9mocratie ne s\u2019installe pas si facilement que pr\u00e9vu en France. L\u2019apprentissage est long, la route accident\u00e9e, les r\u00e9sistances impr\u00e9vues et les conditions pas toujours r\u00e9unies. Optimisme et volontarisme politiques vont pourtant de pair avec les paradoxes de l\u2019histoire. \u00ab\u00a0La d\u00e9mocratie coule \u00e0 [&#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":14,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1834],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chronique-citation-du-jour-pierre-paul-royer-collard-restauration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4521","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=4521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4522,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4521\/revisions\/4522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}