{"id":4523,"date":"2017-03-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-29T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/2025\/06\/21\/robespierre-les-francais-sont-le-premier-peuple-du-monde-qui-ait-etabli-la-veritable-democratie\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T09:16:23","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T07:16:23","slug":"robespierre-les-francais-sont-le-premier-peuple-du-monde-qui-ait-etabli-la-veritable-democratie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/robespierre-les-francais-sont-le-premier-peuple-du-monde-qui-ait-etabli-la-veritable-democratie\/","title":{"rendered":"Robespierre : \u00ab Les Fran\u00e7ais sont le premier Peuple du monde qui ait \u00e9tabli la v\u00e9ritable d\u00e9mocratie&#8230;\u00a0\u00bb"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>D\u00e9mocratie. Un beau mot et une grande id\u00e9e\u00a0: le pouvoir (l\u00e9gal) au peuple. La R\u00e9volution instaure la d\u00e9mocratie, mais pas forc\u00e9ment la justice, la tol\u00e9rance, le <a href=\"http:\/\/www.histoire-en-citations.fr\/indexation\/bonheur\">bonheur<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"citation\"><span class=\"enonce\">\u00ab\u00a0Les Fran\u00e7ais sont le premier Peuple du monde qui ait \u00e9tabli la v\u00e9ritable d\u00e9mocratie, en appelant tous les hommes \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9galit\u00e9 et \u00e0 la pl\u00e9nitude des droits du citoyen\u2026\u00a0\u00bb<span id=\"1574\" class=\"cit-num\">1574<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"auteur\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.histoire-en-citations.fr\/indexation\/robespierre\"><span data-href=\"\/auteurs\/maximilien-de-robespierre\"><span class=\"author\"><span class=\"surname\">Maximilien <\/span><span class=\"name\"><span class=\"caps\">ROBESPIERRE<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a> (1758-1794), Discours \u00ab\u00a0Sur les principes de morale politique qui doivent guider la Convention\u00a0\u00bb, Convention, 7\u00a0f\u00e9vrier 1794<\/p>\n<p class=\"source\"><cite>Choix des discours et des rapports les plus remarquables prononc\u00e9s dans nos Assembl\u00e9es parlementaires depuis 1789 jusqu\u2019\u00e0 1840<\/cite> (1840), Auguste Amic.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>On retrouve la le\u00e7on d\u00e9mocratique du premier philosophe des Lumi\u00e8res, Montesquieu, m\u00eame si <a href=\"http:\/\/www.histoire-en-citations.fr\/indexation\/rousseau\">Rousseau<\/a> est plus souvent le ma\u00eetre \u00e0 penser et \u00e0 gouverner de Robespierre. Il ajoute cette conclusion logique, quoique trop optimiste\u00a0: \u2026 \u00ab\u00a0et c\u2019est l\u00e0, \u00e0 mon avis, la v\u00e9ritable raison pour laquelle tous les tyrans ligu\u00e9s contre la R\u00e9publique seront vaincus.\u00a0\u00bb Il faut cela pour convaincre, \u00e0 la tribune.<\/p>\n<p>Robespierre est tout le contraire des grands tribuns r\u00e9volutionnaires, type Mirabeau et <a href=\"http:\/\/www.histoire-en-citations.fr\/indexation\/danton\">Danton<\/a>\u00a0: rab\u00e2chage \u00e9ternel d\u00e9nonc\u00e9 par ses adversaires, rythme incantatoire allant de pair avec la rigueur du raisonnement. Ce minist\u00e8re de la parole le fait ma\u00eetre de la France et de la R\u00e9volution, deux ans durant, jusqu\u2019au coup d\u2019\u00c9tat du 9 Thermidor (27 juillet 1794). Ce sera la fin de la R\u00e9volution et de la Terreur, mais la d\u00e9mocratie commence une belle carri\u00e8re \u2013 une id\u00e9e neuve en Europe, et au-del\u00e0.<\/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\u00a0C\u2019est au bras de la noblesse de France que la d\u00e9mocratie am\u00e9ricaine a fait son entr\u00e9e dans le monde.\u00a0\u00bb<span id=\"1225\" class=\"cit-num\">1225<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"auteur\">Paul <span class=\"caps\">CLAUDEL<\/span>, ambassadeur de France aux \u00c9tats-Unis<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Allusion \u00e0 La Fayette, soutenant la guerre d\u2019Ind\u00e9pendance des colonies am\u00e9ricaines contre l\u2019Angleterre. Les <a href=\"http:\/\/www.histoire-en-citations.fr\/indexation\/etats-unis\">\u00c9tats-Unis<\/a> se rappelleront cette dette historique en 1917, lors de la Premi\u00e8re Guerre mondiale.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"citation-small\">\u00ab\u00a0100\u00a0000 Fran\u00e7ais chass\u00e9s \u00e0 la fin du <span class=\"caps\">XVII<\/span>e\u00a0si\u00e8cle, 120\u00a0000 Fran\u00e7ais chass\u00e9s \u00e0 la fin du <span class=\"caps\">XVIII<\/span>e\u00a0si\u00e8cle, voil\u00e0 comment la d\u00e9mocratie intol\u00e9rante ach\u00e8ve l\u2019\u0153uvre de la monarchie intol\u00e9rante.\u00a0\u00bb<span id=\"1409\" class=\"cit-num\">1409<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"auteur\">Jules <span class=\"caps\">MICHELET<\/span>,<em> Histoire de la R\u00e9volution fran\u00e7aise<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Il compare les deux grandes \u00e9migrations contemporaines, suite \u00e0 la r\u00e9vocation de l\u2019\u00e9dit de Nantes de <a href=\"http:\/\/www.histoire-en-citations.fr\/indexation\/louis-xiv\">Louis\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">XIV<\/span><\/a> contre les protestants et aux mesures r\u00e9volutionnaires contre les \u00e9migr\u00e9s. Chiffres inf\u00e9rieurs \u00e0 la r\u00e9alit\u00e9.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"citation-small\">\u00ab\u00a0De l\u2019aristocratie,<br>Marat fut la terreur,<br>De la d\u00e9mocratie,<br>Il fut le d\u00e9fenseur.<br>Du peuple, il fut le p\u00e8re,<br>L\u2019ami le plus ardent,<br>Marat fut sur la terre<br>L\u2019appui de l\u2019indigent.\u00a0\u00bb<span id=\"1521\" class=\"cit-num\">1521<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"auteur\">H. d\u2019<span class=\"caps\">HAUSSONVILLE<\/span>, <em>La Mort de Marat<\/em>, chanson, 1793<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Incroyable popularit\u00e9 de l\u2019\u00ab\u00a0Ami du peuple\u00a0\u00bb, journaliste redresseur de torts, critiquant tout et tous, inventant le langage de la Terreur, voulant d\u00e9truire tous ses adversaires. R\u00e9volutionnaire type jusqu\u2019\u00e0 la caricature, loin de notre id\u00e9al de d\u00e9mocratie.<\/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 D\u00e9mocratie. Un beau mot et une grande id\u00e9e\u00a0: le pouvoir (l\u00e9gal) au peuple. La R\u00e9volution instaure la d\u00e9mocratie, mais pas forc\u00e9ment la justice, la tol\u00e9rance, le bonheur&#8230; \u00ab\u00a0Les Fran\u00e7ais sont le premier Peuple du monde qui ait \u00e9tabli la v\u00e9ritable d\u00e9mocratie, en appelant tous les hommes \u00e0 l&#8217;\u00e9galit\u00e9 et \u00e0 la pl\u00e9nitude des droits [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11171,"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":23,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chronique-citation-du-jour-maximilien-de-robespierre-revolution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4523","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=4523"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4524,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4523\/revisions\/4524"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}