{"id":5121,"date":"2017-09-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-21T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/2025\/06\/21\/du-travail-ou-la-mort-nous-aimons-mieux-perir-dune-balle-que-de-faim\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T09:16:44","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T07:16:44","slug":"du-travail-ou-la-mort-nous-aimons-mieux-perir-dune-balle-que-de-faim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/du-travail-ou-la-mort-nous-aimons-mieux-perir-dune-balle-que-de-faim\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00ab Du travail ou la mort. Nous aimons mieux p\u00e9rir d&#039;une balle que de faim.\u00a0\u00bb"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<p>Cinqui\u00e8me jour de notre s\u00e9rie de citations historiques sur le travail\u00a0: la terrible duret\u00e9 du <span class=\"caps\">XIX<\/span>e si\u00e8cle. En l\u2019absence de loi sociale, l\u2019industrialisation aggrave la condition ouvri\u00e8re et la premi\u00e8re grande <a href=\"https:\/\/www.histoire-en-citations.fr\/\/citations\/gr%C3%A8ve\" class=\"broken_link\">gr\u00e8ve<\/a> de l\u2019Histoire frappe l\u2019opinion publique inform\u00e9e par la nouvelle presse \u00e0 grand tirage. Comment les dirigeants politiques ont-ils pu ignorer\u00a0si aveugl\u00e9ment et si durablement la situation\u00a0?<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"citation\"><span class=\"enonce\">\u00ab\u00a0Du travail ou la mort. Nous aimons mieux p\u00e9rir d\u2019une balle que de faim.\u00a0\u00bb<span id=\"2071\" class=\"cit-num\">2071<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"auteur\">R\u00e9ponse des ouvriers au pr\u00e9fet<\/p>\n<p class=\"source\"><cite>Compte-rendu des \u00e9v\u00e9nements qui ont eu lieu dans la ville de Lyon au mois de novembre\u00a01831<\/cite> (1832), Louis Bouvier-Dumolart.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"ressi\">La r\u00e9volte des canuts (ouvriers de la soie) contre les soyeux (fabricants) est d\u2019origine \u00e9conomique, et non politique \u2013 comme la plupart des gr\u00e8ves \u00e0 venir et du mouvement anarchiste qui empruntera aux \u00e9meutiers le drapeau noir et la devise \u00ab\u00a0Vivre libres en travaillant ou mourir en combattant\u00a0\u00bb.<\/p>\n<p>Les soyeux ne respectent pas le nouveau tarif des salaires, sign\u00e9 par leurs d\u00e9l\u00e9gu\u00e9s dont ils contestent le mandat. Commencent alors les \u00ab\u00a0trois glorieuses du prol\u00e9tariat lyonnais\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0: gr\u00e8ve, puis insurrection. Au matin du 22\u00a0novembre, les canuts de la Croix-Rousse descendent sur la ville en criant leur r\u00e9volte. Ils se retrouvent sans le vouloir ma\u00eetres de Lyon, vid\u00e9e de sa garnison qui risquait de pactiser avec les insurg\u00e9s.<\/p>\n<p>L\u2019H\u00f4tel de Ville de Lyon est occup\u00e9 par les insurg\u00e9s, mais de nouvelles troupes, command\u00e9es par le mar\u00e9chal Soult et le duc d\u2019Orl\u00e9ans, r\u00e9occupent la ville, expulsent 10\u00a0000 ouvriers, le 5\u00a0d\u00e9cembre 1831. Bilan\u00a0: 171 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.histoire-en-citations.fr\/\/citations\/mort\">morts<\/a> civils, 170 militaires, 600 arrestations. On destitue le pr\u00e9fet trop bienveillant \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9gard des revendications ouvri\u00e8res. Le tarif \u00e0 l\u2019origine de la r\u00e9volte est proclam\u00e9 nul et non avenu\u00a0: \u00e9chec total de la premi\u00e8re grande gr\u00e8ve de l\u2019histoire de France. Mais elle fera \u00e9cole. Et l\u2019Histoire en garde la m\u00e9moire.<\/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\u00a0Mais notre r\u00e8gne arrivera<br>Quand votre r\u00e8gne finira.<br>Alors nous tisserons le linceul du vieux monde<br>Car on entend d\u00e9j\u00e0 la r\u00e9volte qui gronde\u00a0!\u00a0\u00bb<span id=\"2070\" class=\"cit-num\">2070<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"auteur\">Aristide <span class=\"caps\">BRUANT<\/span>, <em>La Complainte des canuts<\/em>, chanson<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u00c0 la fin du <span class=\"caps\">XIX<\/span>e si\u00e8cle, le plus c\u00e9l\u00e8bre chansonnier immortalisera cette r\u00e9volte des canuts de Lyon, dans un chant dont la r\u00e9sonance refl\u00e8te surtout l\u2019esprit d\u2019anarchie, propre \u00e0 l\u2019auteur et \u00e0 son \u00e9poque (la Troisi\u00e8me R\u00e9publique). Yves Montand l\u2019enregistrera. \u00c9coutez sa voix sur YouTube, deux minutes d\u2019\u00e9motion pure, en souvenir des canuts de l\u2019histoire.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"citation-small\">\u00ab\u00a0Il faut que les ouvriers sachent bien qu\u2019il n\u2019y a de rem\u00e8de \u00e0 leurs maux que dans la patience et la r\u00e9signation.\u00a0\u00bb<span id=\"2072\" class=\"cit-num\">2072<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"auteur\">Casimir <span class=\"caps\">P\u00c9RIER<\/span>, Chambre des d\u00e9put\u00e9s, fin 1831<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Discours du chef du <a href=\"https:\/\/www.histoire-en-citations.fr\/indexation\/gouvernement-gouverner\">gouvernement<\/a>, symbolisant la duret\u00e9 du lib\u00e9ralisme qui fait loi politique, \u00e9conomique et sociale sous la Monarchie de Juillet, de 1830 \u00e0 1848.<\/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>Cinqui\u00e8me jour de notre s\u00e9rie de citations historiques sur le travail&nbsp;: la terrible duret\u00e9 du XIXe si\u00e8cle. En l\u2019absence de loi sociale, l\u2019industrialisation aggrave la condition ouvri\u00e8re et la premi\u00e8re grande gr\u00e8ve de l\u2019Histoire frappe l\u2019opinion publique inform\u00e9e par la nouvelle presse \u00e0 grand tirage. Comment les dirigeants politiques ont-ils pu ignorer\u00a0si aveugl\u00e9ment et si [&#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":8,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1610],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chronique-citation-du-jour-monarchie-de-juillet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5121","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=5121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5122,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5121\/revisions\/5122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}