{"id":5059,"date":"2017-09-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-31T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/2025\/06\/21\/jean-giraudoux\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T09:16:42","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T07:16:42","slug":"jean-giraudoux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/jean-giraudoux\/","title":{"rendered":"Jean Giraudoux"},"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\/jean_giraudoux_1927.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto\" width=\"400\" height=\"550\"><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"citation-small\">\u00ab\u00a0L\u2019armistice vient d\u2019\u00eatre sign\u00e9 par Lloyd George qui ressemble \u00e0 un caniche, par Wilson qui ressemble \u00e0 un colley et par Clemenceau qui ressemble \u00e0 un dogue.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<p class=\"auteur\">Jean <span class=\"caps\">GIRAUDOUX<\/span> (1882-1944),<em> Suzanne et le Pacifique<\/em> (1921)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Diplomate et romancier, puis auteur dramatique, il fera une longue carri\u00e8re aux Affaires \u00e9trang\u00e8res de 1910 \u00e0 1940. L\u2019armistice est sign\u00e9 le 11 novembre 1918, dans un wagon-salon pr\u00e8s de la gare de Rethondes.<\/p>\n<p>Il impose \u00e0 l\u2019Allemagne l\u2019\u00e9vacuation des territoires envahis, de la rive gauche du Rhin, ainsi que d\u2019une zone de 10 km sur la rive droite\u00a0; la livraison de mat\u00e9riel de guerre (canons, mitrailleuses, sous-marins, navires) pour pr\u00e9venir toute reprise des hostilit\u00e9s\u00a0; la restitution imm\u00e9diate des prisonniers de guerre. Sign\u00e9 pour 36 jours, l\u2019armistice est reconduit jusqu\u2019\u00e0 la signature du trait\u00e9 de Versailles, le 28 juin 1919.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"citation-small\">\u00ab\u00a0Les nations, comme les hommes, meurent d\u2019imperceptibles impolitesses. C\u2019est \u00e0 leur fa\u00e7on d\u2019\u00e9ternuer ou d\u2019\u00e9culer leurs talons que se reconnaissent les peuples condamn\u00e9s.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<p class=\"auteur\">Jean <span class=\"caps\">GIRAUDOUX<\/span> (1882-1944), <em>La Guerre de Troie n\u2019aura pas lieu<\/em> (1935)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Diplomate, bien plac\u00e9 pour voir venir les p\u00e9rils et savoir que la guerre aura lieu, auteur de roman et (ici) de th\u00e9\u00e2tre, recourant au mythe pour aborder les questions de l\u2019actualit\u00e9 br\u00fblante, Giraudoux t\u00e9moigne \u00e0 sa mani\u00e8re apparemment l\u00e9g\u00e8re \u2013 un parmi tant d\u2019autres intellectuels saisis par l\u2019\u00e9vidence de cette Troisi\u00e8me R\u00e9publique finissante.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"citation-small\">\u00ab\u00a0Le Fran\u00e7ais se fait rare.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<p class=\"auteur\">Jean <span class=\"caps\">GIRAUDOUX<\/span> (1882-1944), 1939. <em>Le Si\u00e8cle des intellectuels<\/em> (1997), Michel Winock<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>La d\u00e9natalit\u00e9 le hante \u00e0 partir de 1935\u00a0: apr\u00e8s les coupes sombres de la guerre de 1914-1918 (1,4 million de morts ou disparus), la population fran\u00e7aise diminue, fait sans pr\u00e9c\u00e9dent dans les annales d\u2019un pays industrialis\u00e9. Cons\u00e9quence des retomb\u00e9es de la grande crise \u00e9conomique de 1929 qui augmente le ch\u00f4mage, d\u00e9faut de politique du logement et de la famille, \u00e9mancipation f\u00e9minine, toutes ces causes possibles se greffent sur un trend (mouvement de long terme) malthusien et le renforcent.<\/p>\n<p>On peut parler de catastrophe nationale, si on compare les populations de la France et de l\u2019Allemagne en 1939\u00a0: 41 millions face \u00e0 70 millions\u00a0! La d\u00e9mographie ne risque-t-elle pas de faire la loi \u00e0 la d\u00e9mocratie\u00a0?<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"citation-small\">\u00ab\u00a0Blason de d\u00e9faites, blason d\u2019indignit\u00e9s, telles \u00e9taient les armoiries que le nouvel ordre remettait, pour leur sacre, \u00e0 ses chevaliers.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<p class=\"auteur\">Jean <span class=\"caps\">GIRAUDOUX<\/span> (1882-1944), <em>Sans pouvoirs<\/em> (posthume, 1946)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Diplomate de carri\u00e8re en m\u00eame temps qu\u2019auteur de roman et de th\u00e9\u00e2tre, commissaire \u00e0 l\u2019Information dans le gouvernement Daladier en 1939, il quitte ce poste apr\u00e8s la d\u00e9faite et condamne bient\u00f4t le r\u00e9gime de Vichy, ses \u00ab\u00a0chevaliers\u00a0\u00bb et leurs \u00ab\u00a0armoiries\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0: \u00ab\u00a0Un proche avenir les mart\u00e8lera, aucune de leurs devises n\u2019a \u00e9t\u00e9 accept\u00e9e par le pays et la le\u00e7on des \u00e9v\u00e9nements est bien loin pour la France des v\u00e9rit\u00e9s o\u00f9 certains de ses dirigeants ont pr\u00e9tendu la trouver.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<p>Robert Aron, dans son <em>Histoire de Vichy<\/em>, souligne le contraste si choquant\u00a0: \u00ab\u00a0C\u00e9r\u00e9monies de loyalisme, serments pr\u00eat\u00e9s en s\u00e9rie, discours inspir\u00e9s, telle est la vie officielle. Les existences r\u00e9elles, pour la plupart, sont domin\u00e9es par la faim et le manque de libert\u00e9s.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<p>L\u2019\u00e9diteur Brunschwig d\u00e9finit l\u2019\u00e9poque comme \u00ab\u00a0un m\u00e9lange de terreur blanche, de biblioth\u00e8que rose et de march\u00e9 noir\u00a0\u00bb (cit\u00e9 par Roger St\u00e9phane, <em>Tout est bien<\/em>).<\/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\u00a0L\u2019armistice vient d\u2019\u00eatre sign\u00e9 par Lloyd George qui ressemble \u00e0 un caniche, par Wilson qui ressemble \u00e0 un colley et par Clemenceau qui ressemble \u00e0 un dogue.\u00a0\u00bb Jean GIRAUDOUX (1882-1944), Suzanne et le Pacifique (1921) Diplomate et romancier, puis auteur dramatique, il fera une longue carri\u00e8re aux Affaires \u00e9trang\u00e8res de 1910 \u00e0 1940. 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