{"id":4627,"date":"2017-05-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-08T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/?p=4627"},"modified":"2025-07-19T09:16:28","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T07:16:28","slug":"mirabeau-choisissez-parmi-les-plus-riches-afin-de-sacrifier-moins-de-citoyens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/mirabeau-choisissez-parmi-les-plus-riches-afin-de-sacrifier-moins-de-citoyens\/","title":{"rendered":"Mirabeau : \u00ab Choisissez parmi les plus riches, afin de sacrifier moins de citoyens&#8230;\u00a0\u00bb"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"field-item even\" property=\"content:encoded\">\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sous la R\u00e9volution, le mot est mis au service de toutes les causes et si l\u2019on peut dire assaisonn\u00e9 \u00e0 toutes les sauces. Le manich\u00e9isme entre bons et mauvais (citoyens) est pouss\u00e9 au paroxysme. Voici une br\u00e8ve s\u00e9lection de citations surprenantes, bien dans l\u2019esprit de l\u2019\u00e9poque \u2013 forme et fond \u2013 et naturellement emprunt\u00e9es \u00e0 <em>l\u2019Histoire en citations<\/em>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"citation\"><span class=\"enonce\">\u00ab\u00a0Choisissez parmi les plus riches, afin de sacrifier moins de citoyens\u00a0; mais choisissez\u00a0; car ne faut-il pas qu\u2019un petit nombre p\u00e9risse pour sauver la masse du peuple\u00a0? Allons, ces deux mille notables poss\u00e8dent de quoi combler le d\u00e9ficit.\u00a0\u00bb<span id=\"1349\" class=\"cit-num\">1349<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"auteur\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.histoire-en-citations.fr\/indexation\/mirabeau\"><span data-href=\"\/auteurs\/honore-gabriel-riqueti-comte-de-mirabeau\"><span class=\"author\"><span class=\"surname\">Comte de <\/span><span class=\"name\"><span class=\"caps\">MIRABEAU<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a> (1749-1791), Discours \u00e0 la Constituante, 26\u00a0septembre 1789<\/p>\n<p class=\"source\"><cite>M\u00e9moires biographiques, litt\u00e9raires et politiques de Mirabeau<\/cite> (1835).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"ressi\">L\u2019Orateur du peuple improvise toujours \u00e0 la tribune avec le m\u00eame g\u00e9nie. Mais ce ne sont pas que des \u00ab\u00a0mots verbaux\u00a0\u00bb, ils collent \u00e0 la situation r\u00e9ellement dramatique et sont suivis d\u2019effets qui deviendront tragiques sous la Terreur \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.histoire-en-citations.fr\/indexation\/mirabeau\">Mirabeau<\/a> mourra avant.<\/p>\n<p>Crise financi\u00e8re et d\u00e9ficit du budget public sont les causes les plus directes de la R\u00e9volution. Mirabeau tente de sauver la monarchie (en monnayant ses services aupr\u00e8s du couple royal), tout en d\u00e9non\u00e7ant les raisons du mal dont souffre le r\u00e9gime\u00a0: \u00ab\u00a0Deux si\u00e8cles de d\u00e9pr\u00e9dations et de brigandage ont creus\u00e9 le gouffre o\u00f9 le royaume est pr\u00e8s de s\u2019engloutir. Il faut le combler, ce gouffre effroyable\u00a0! Eh bien, voici la liste des propri\u00e9taires fran\u00e7ais, choisissez\u2026\u00a0\u00bb<\/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\u00a0D\u00e9sarmez les citoyens ti\u00e8des et suspects, mettez \u00e0 prix la t\u00eate des \u00e9migr\u00e9s conspirateurs [\u2026] Prenez en otage les femmes, les enfants des tra\u00eetres \u00e0 la patrie.\u00a0\u00bb<span id=\"1411\" class=\"cit-num\">1411<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"auteur\">Jacques <span class=\"caps\">ROUX<\/span>, 17\u00a0mai 1792<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Discours du chef des Enrag\u00e9s, prononc\u00e9 \u00e0 Notre-Dame (o\u00f9 le culte est interdit par la Commune de Paris), imprim\u00e9, vendu au profit des pauvres. L\u2019escalade de la pens\u00e9e terroriste est claire. C\u2019est le langage de la terreur, avant la Terreur.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"citation-small\">\u00ab\u00a0Pour \u00eatre R\u00e9publicain, il faut que chaque citoyen \u00e9prouve et op\u00e8re en lui-m\u00eame une r\u00e9volution \u00e9gale \u00e0 celle qui a chang\u00e9 la face de la France.\u00a0\u00bb<span id=\"1558\" class=\"cit-num\">1558<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"auteur\"><span class=\"caps\">FOUCH\u00c9<\/span>, \u00e0 Saint-Just, novembre\u00a01793<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Surnomm\u00e9 le Mitrailleur de Lyon, il remplace la guillotine trop lente par le canon, pour venir \u00e0 bout des insurg\u00e9s. Le mot de Fouch\u00e9 est repris par Saint-Just, \u00e0 la Commission de surveillance lyonnaise, en novembre\u00a0: tout \u00e0 fait dans la logique de cet implacable th\u00e9oricien.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"citation-small\">\u00ab\u00a0Le citoyen J\u00e9sus-Christ a \u00e9t\u00e9 le premier sans-culotte du monde.\u00a0\u00bb<span id=\"1536\" class=\"cit-num\">1536<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"auteur\">Fran\u00e7ois <span class=\"caps\">CHABOT<\/span>, Discours, 7 septembre 1793<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Conventionnel, capucin d\u00e9froqu\u00e9, coquin port\u00e9 sur la bonne ch\u00e8re et la chair des jolies filles, cependant \u00e9v\u00eaque constitutionnel de Blois, auteur d\u2019un <em>Cat\u00e9chisme des Sans-culottes<\/em>. M\u00e9taphore christique reprise par Camille Desmoulins, \u00e0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.histoire-en-citations.fr\/indexation\/mot-de-la-fin\">l\u2019heure de sa mort<\/a>.<\/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 Sous la R\u00e9volution, le mot est mis au service de toutes les causes et si l\u2019on peut dire assaisonn\u00e9 \u00e0 toutes les sauces. Le manich\u00e9isme entre bons et mauvais (citoyens) est pouss\u00e9 au paroxysme. Voici une br\u00e8ve s\u00e9lection de citations surprenantes, bien dans l\u2019esprit de l\u2019\u00e9poque &#8211; forme et fond &#8211; et naturellement emprunt\u00e9es [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11144,"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":9,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1597],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chronique-citation-du-jour-honore-gabriel-riqueti-comte-de-mirabeau-revolution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4627","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=4627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4628,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4627\/revisions\/4628"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}