{"id":4593,"date":"2017-04-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-14T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/2025\/06\/21\/chanson-il-faut-raccourcir-les-geants-et-rendre-les-petits-plus-grands\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T09:16:25","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T07:16:25","slug":"chanson-il-faut-raccourcir-les-geants-et-rendre-les-petits-plus-grands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/chanson-il-faut-raccourcir-les-geants-et-rendre-les-petits-plus-grands\/","title":{"rendered":"Chanson : \u00ab Il faut raccourcir les g\u00e9ants Et rendre les petits plus grands&#8230;\u00a0\u00bb"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>6. Humour populaire et chansonnier.<\/p>\n<p>La rue s\u2019en donne \u00e0 c\u0153ur joie et le peuple s\u2019exprime comme jamais avant ni apr\u00e8s. On peut \u00e9crire une Histoire de la R\u00e9volution rien que par les <a href=\"http:\/\/www.histoire-en-citations.fr\/indexation\/chant-chanson\">chansons<\/a>, le plus souvent anonymes, gaillardes et cruelles, \u00e0 l\u2019image du temps.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"citation\"><span class=\"enonce\">\u00ab\u00a0Il faut raccourcir les g\u00e9ants Et rendre les petits plus grands, Tout \u00e0 la m\u00eame hauteur Voil\u00e0 le vrai bonheur.\u00a0\u00bb<span id=\"1597\" class=\"cit-num\">1597<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"auteur\"><cite>Portrait du sans-culotte<\/cite>, chanson anonyme<\/p>\n<p class=\"source\"><cite>Les Sans-culottes parisiens en l\u2019an <span class=\"caps\">II<\/span><\/cite> (1968), Albert Soboul.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"ressi\">C\u2019est l\u2019homme nouveau, vu par la \u00ab\u00a0sans-culotterie\u00a0\u00bb. C\u2019est le r\u00e8gne de l\u2019\u00e9galit\u00e9 prise au pied de la lettre\u00a0! C\u2019est aussi la n\u00e9gation du grand homme, du h\u00e9ros en tant qu\u2019individu, au b\u00e9n\u00e9fice du h\u00e9ros collectif, le <a href=\"http:\/\/www.histoire-en-citations.fr\/indexation\/peuples\">Peuple<\/a>, incarn\u00e9 par le sans-culotte. \u00ab\u00a0De la premi\u00e8re \u00e0 la derni\u00e8re page, la R\u00e9volution n\u2019a qu\u2019un h\u00e9ros\u00a0: le peuple.\u00a0\u00bb Jules Michelet, <em>Le Peuple<\/em> (1846). Et c\u2019est toujours l\u2019histoire de France, cont\u00e9e par les chansons.<\/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\u00a0Guillotin \u2013 M\u00e9decin \u2013 Politique,<br>Imagine un beau matin <br>Que pendre est inhumain <br>Et peu patriotique.<br>Aussit\u00f4t <br>Il lui faut <br>Un supplice <br>Qui, sans corde ni poteau, <br>Supprime du bourreau <br>L\u2019office.\u00a0\u00bb<span id=\"1413\" class=\"cit-num\">1413<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"auteur\"><em>La Guillotine<\/em>, chanson<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Dans\u00e9s sur un air de menuet, ces vers prouvent que tout fut bon \u00e0 chansonner. Contre l\u2019avis de Guillotin (d\u00e9put\u00e9, m\u00e9decin et philanthrope), on baptisa guillotine ces \u00ab\u00a0bois de justice\u00a0\u00bb.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"citation-small\">\u00ab\u00a0Pierre, Paul, Mathieu, Mathias, Jude, \/ Simon et vous Barth\u00e9lemy,<br>Voyez \u00e0 quelle \u00e9preuve rude \/ Le Fran\u00e7ais vous met aujourd\u2019hui.<br>Vos cris sont superflus, \/ Vous serez tous fondus\u00a0!<br>Grands saints dans le creuset, \/ Tombez, c\u2019est le d\u00e9cret.\u00a0\u00bb<span id=\"1375\" class=\"cit-num\">1375<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"auteur\"><em>Les Saints convertis en monnaie<\/em>, chanson<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>C\u2019est la crise. Il faut r\u00e9cup\u00e9rer tous les m\u00e9taux, pr\u00e9cieux ou non. On descend les cloches des tours des \u00e9glises, elles sont fondues. On fabrique des \u00ab\u00a0sous de cloches\u00a0\u00bb d\u00e8s septembre\u00a01790.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"citation-small\">\u00ab\u00a0Un soir, disait Condorcet \/ \u00c0 plus d\u2019un confr\u00e8re,<br>J\u2019ai dans la t\u00eate un projet \/ Qui pourra vous plaire,<br>Il nous faut, mes chers amis, \/ \u00c9tablir en ce pays<br>Une r\u00e9-r\u00e9-r\u00e9 \/ Une pu-pu-pu \/ Une r\u00e9 \u2013 Une pu \u2013 Une r\u00e9publique, \/ D\u2019une forme unique.\u00a0\u00bb<span id=\"1438\" class=\"cit-num\">1438<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"auteur\"><span class=\"caps\">MARCHANT<\/span>, <em>Le Grand Projet<\/em>, chanson<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Chanson \u00e0 la mode, apr\u00e8s Valmy (20 septembre 1792). Le roi est suspendu de ses fonctions, la monarchie fait place \u00e0 un nouveau r\u00e9gime et l\u2019<a href=\"http:\/\/www.histoire-en-citations.fr\/indexation\/humour-esprit\">humour<\/a> reprend ses droits.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"citation-small\">\u00ab\u00a0Rhabillez-vous peuple fran\u00e7ais \/ Ne donnez plus dans les exc\u00e8s \/ De nos faux patriotes<br>Ne croyez plus \/ Qu\u2019aller tout nus \/ Soit une preuve de vertu \/ Remettez vos culottes.\u00a0\u00bb<span id=\"1621\" class=\"cit-num\">1621<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"auteur\"><span class=\"caps\">DESPR\u00c9AUX<\/span>, <em>Remettez vos culottes<\/em> ou <em>Conseils aux sans-culottes<\/em>, chanson de l\u2019automne 1795<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Le coup d\u2019\u00c9tat du 9 Thermidor met fin \u00e0 la Terreur. Retour \u00e0 une r\u00e9publique bourgeoise, lib\u00e9rale et mod\u00e9r\u00e9e. On va beaucoup s\u2019amuser, sous le Directoire.<\/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 6. Humour populaire et chansonnier.La rue s\u2019en donne \u00e0 c\u0153ur joie et le peuple s\u2019exprime comme jamais avant ni apr\u00e8s. On peut \u00e9crire une Histoire de la R\u00e9volution rien que par les chansons, le plus souvent anonymes, gaillardes et cruelles, \u00e0 l\u2019image du temps. \u00ab\u00a0Il faut raccourcir les g\u00e9ants Et rendre les petits plus [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11174,"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":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1465],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chronique-citation-du-jour-revolution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4593","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=4593"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4594,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4593\/revisions\/4594"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}