{"id":5128,"date":"2018-05-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-04T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/2025\/06\/21\/richelieu-la-legerete-ordinaire-des-francais-leur-fait-desirer-le-changement-a-cause-de-lennui-quils-ont-des-choses-presentes\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T08:44:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T06:44:08","slug":"richelieu-la-legerete-ordinaire-des-francais-leur-fait-desirer-le-changement-a-cause-de-lennui-quils-ont-des-choses-presentes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/richelieu-la-legerete-ordinaire-des-francais-leur-fait-desirer-le-changement-a-cause-de-lennui-quils-ont-des-choses-presentes\/","title":{"rendered":"Richelieu : \u00ab La l\u00e9g\u00e8ret\u00e9 ordinaire des Fran\u00e7ais leur fait d\u00e9sirer le changement \u00e0 cause de l&rsquo;ennui qu&rsquo;ils ont des choses pr\u00e9sentes.\u00a0\u00bb"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/indexation\/\">R\u00e9forme<\/a>. Nouveau mot de l\u2019indexation r\u00e9form\u00e9e, elle revient dans l\u2019actualit\u00e9 avec des variantes s\u00e9mantiques d\u00e9j\u00e0 pr\u00e9sentes dans <em>L\u2019Histoire en citations<\/em> \u2013 changement, transformation, nouveaut\u00e9. Et des v\u00e9rit\u00e9s bonnes \u00e0 rappeler, li\u00e9es \u00e0 des \u00e9v\u00e9nements qui font date. L\u2019ordre chronologique s\u2019impose. R\u00e9sumons l\u2019Ancien R\u00e9gime en un jour et trois citations.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"citation\"><span class=\"enonce\">\u00ab\u00a0La l\u00e9g\u00e8ret\u00e9 ordinaire des Fran\u00e7ais leur fait d\u00e9sirer le changement \u00e0 cause de l\u2019ennui qu\u2019ils ont des choses pr\u00e9sentes.\u00a0\u00bb<span id=\"584\" class=\"cit-num\">584<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"auteur\"><a href=\"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/indexation\/\"><span data-href=\"\/auteurs\/cardinal-de-richelieu\"><span class=\"author\"><span class=\"surname\">Cardinal de <\/span><span class=\"name\"><span class=\"caps\">RICHELIEU<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a> (1585-1642)<\/p>\n<p class=\"source\">\u00ab\u00a0Maximes d\u2019\u00c9tat du cardinal de Richelieu\u00a0\u00bb, Guy Thullier, <cite>La Revue administrative<\/cite>, n\u00b0\u00a053 (1956).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Cette \u00ab\u00a0l\u00e9g\u00e8ret\u00e9\u00a0\u00bb va revenir comme un leitmotiv et un sujet d\u2019\u00e9tonnement, d\u2019irritation, de reproche dans l\u2019esprit de l\u2019homme rouge dont la l\u00e9g\u00e8ret\u00e9 n\u2019est assur\u00e9ment ni un d\u00e9faut, ni une qualit\u00e9\u00a0! Louis\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">XIII<\/span> lui-m\u00eame s\u2019en fait l\u2019\u00e9cho. Ce trait de caract\u00e8re est cause qu\u2019on ne gouverne pas si ais\u00e9ment ce pays frondeur, ni en paix, ni en guerre. Pas plus son peuple que ses nobles ni ses bourgeois, ses auteurs, ses chansonniers ni ses penseurs.<\/p>\n<p>De mani\u00e8re g\u00e9n\u00e9rale, le changement n\u2019est pas bien vu sous la monarchie absolue et l\u2019Ancien R\u00e9gime mourra de n\u2019avoir pas su se r\u00e9former. Richelieu a par ailleurs d\u2019autres priorit\u00e9s\u00a0: renforcer l\u2019unit\u00e9 du pays et le pouvoir de l\u2019\u00c9tat contre les protestants, les Grands, les Parlements et quelques autres rebelles, traquer les comploteurs\u00a0et se d\u00e9fendre contre les puissants Habsbourg d\u2019Autriche et d\u2019<a href=\"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/indexation\/\">Espagne<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"panneau\">Toutes les citations qui suivent <br>sont comment\u00e9es dans nos <a href=\"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/boutique\/\">Chroniques.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"citation-small\">\u00ab\u00a0Qu\u2019un peuple est heureux, lorsqu\u2019il n\u2019y a rien de fait chez lui\u00a0! Les mauvaises et surtout les vieilles institutions sont un obstacle presque invincible aux bonnes.\u00a0\u00bb<span id=\"1065\" class=\"cit-num\">1065<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"auteur\"><a href=\"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/indexation\/\"><span class=\"caps\">DIDEROT<\/span><\/a>, <em>Entretiens avec Catherine <span class=\"caps\">II<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>C\u2019est d\u00e9j\u00e0 en germe la philosophie de la table rase. Il est vrai qu\u2019en France, la lourdeur des institutions et l\u2019enracinement des privil\u00e8ges sont tels que toutes les r\u00e9formes entreprises durant le si\u00e8cle des Lumi\u00e8res se heurtent \u00e0 des murs et qu\u2019une r\u00e9volution devient in\u00e9vitable.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"citation-small\">\u00ab\u00a0Il est impossible d\u2019imposer plus, ruineux d\u2019emprunter toujours\u00a0; non suffisant de se borner aux r\u00e9formes \u00e9conomiques.\u00a0\u00bb<span id=\"1244\" class=\"cit-num\">1244<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"auteur\"><span class=\"caps\">CALONNE<\/span>, <em>Plan d\u2019am\u00e9lioration des finances<\/em>, M\u00e9moire, 20\u00a0ao\u00fbt 1786<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>L\u2019Enchanteur a commenc\u00e9 par rassurer les pr\u00eateurs. Il a multipli\u00e9 les projets industriels, financ\u00e9 les f\u00eates \u00e0 Versailles, les spectacles \u00e0 l\u2019Op\u00e9ra de Paris, dop\u00e9 le commerce en diminuant les <a href=\"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/impots-fiscalite\/\">taxes<\/a>. Mais l\u2019emprunt co\u00fbte de plus en plus cher, les recettes n\u2019augmentent pas comme esp\u00e9r\u00e9, l\u2019inflation encourage la sp\u00e9culation, les faillites se multiplient, l\u2019\u00e9tat de gr\u00e2ce est fini. Calonne a compris\u00a0: \u00ab\u00a0Il est indispensable de reprendre en sous-\u0153uvre l\u2019\u00e9difice entier pour en pr\u00e9venir la ruine.\u00a0\u00bb Mais il est bien tard.<\/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>R\u00e9forme. Nouveau mot de l\u2019indexation r\u00e9form\u00e9e, elle revient dans l\u2019actualit\u00e9 avec des variantes s\u00e9mantiques d\u00e9j\u00e0 pr\u00e9sentes dans L\u2019Histoire en citations &#8211; changement, transformation, nouveaut\u00e9. Et des v\u00e9rit\u00e9s bonnes \u00e0 rappeler, li\u00e9es \u00e0 des \u00e9v\u00e9nements qui font date. L\u2019ordre chronologique s\u2019impose. R\u00e9sumons l\u2019Ancien R\u00e9gime en un jour et trois citations.\u00ab\u00a0La l\u00e9g\u00e8ret\u00e9 ordinaire des Fran\u00e7ais leur fait [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11046,"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":16,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-citation-du-jour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5128","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=5128"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13284,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5128\/revisions\/13284"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}