{"id":5147,"date":"2017-10-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-30T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/2025\/06\/21\/alfred-de-vigny\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T09:16:46","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T07:16:46","slug":"alfred-de-vigny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/alfred-de-vigny\/","title":{"rendered":"Alfred de Vigny"},"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\/alfred_de_vigny_0.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto\" width=\"399\" height=\"497\"><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"citation-small\">\u00ab\u00a0Nos ma\u00eetres ressemblaient \u00e0 des h\u00e9rauts d\u2019armes, nos salles d\u2019\u00e9tudes \u00e0 des casernes, nos r\u00e9cr\u00e9ations \u00e0 des manoeuvres et nos examens \u00e0 des revues.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<p class=\"auteur\">Alfred de <span class=\"caps\">VIGNY<\/span> (1797-1863),<em> Servitude et grandeur militaires<\/em> (1835)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>T\u00e9moignage d\u2019un ancien \u00e9l\u00e8ve du lyc\u00e9e Bonaparte (aujourd\u2019hui Condorcet), \u00e2g\u00e9 de 14 ans en 1811, n\u00e9 d\u2019une famille aristocratique et de tradition militaire, se pr\u00e9parant (sans vraie vocation) \u00e0 Polytechnique. Apr\u00e8s avoir pass\u00e9 15 ans dans l\u2019arm\u00e9e, Vigny la quittera devenir po\u00e8te.<\/p>\n<p>Il \u00e9voque avec nostalgie ce pass\u00e9 qui fait r\u00eaver toute sa g\u00e9n\u00e9ration romantique\u00a0: \u00ab\u00a0Les ma\u00eetres m\u00eames ne cessaient de nous lire les bulletins de la Grande Arm\u00e9e, et nos cris de Vive l\u2019empereur interrompaient Tacite et Platon [\u2026] Il me prit alors plus que jamais un amour vraiment d\u00e9sordonn\u00e9 de la gloire des armes\u00a0; passion d\u2019autant plus malheureuse que c\u2019\u00e9tait le temps, pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment, o\u00f9 la France commen\u00e7ait \u00e0 s\u2019en gu\u00e9rir.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"citation-small\">\u00ab\u00a0J\u2019appartiens \u00e0 cette g\u00e9n\u00e9ration n\u00e9e avec le si\u00e8cle, qui, nourrie de bulletins par l\u2019Empereur, avait toujours devant les yeux une \u00e9p\u00e9e nue et vint la prendre au moment m\u00eame o\u00f9 la France la remettait dans le fourreau des Bourbons.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<p class=\"auteur\">Alfred de <span class=\"caps\">VIGNY<\/span> (1797-1863), <em>Servitude et grandeur militaires<\/em> (1835)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>T\u00e9moignage d\u2019un grand \u00e9crivain de ce temps riche en talents, bien plus que ne furent la R\u00e9volution et l\u2019Empire.<\/p>\n<p>Vigny traduit ici l\u2019\u00e9tat d\u2019esprit de toute une g\u00e9n\u00e9ration de jeunes romantiques \u00ab\u00a0bien n\u00e9s\u00a0\u00bb. Ils rallieront l\u2019opposition lib\u00e9rale quand la monarchie selon Charles X deviendra plus ultra que royaliste, \u00e0 la fin de la Restauration.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"citation-small\">\u00ab\u00a0Le bourgeois de Paris est un roi qui a, chaque matin \u00e0 son lever, un complaisant, un flatteur qui lui conte vingt histoires. Il n\u2019est point oblig\u00e9 de lui offrir \u00e0 d\u00e9jeuner, il le fait taire quand il veut et lui rend la parole \u00e0 son gr\u00e9\u00a0; cet ami docile lui pla\u00eet d\u2019autant plus qu\u2019il est le miroir de son \u00e2me et lui dit tous les jours son opinion en termes un peu meilleurs qu\u2019il ne l\u2019e\u00fbt exprim\u00e9e lui-m\u00eame\u00a0; \u00f4tez-lui cet ami, il lui semblera que le monde s\u2019arr\u00eate\u00a0; cet ami, ce miroir, cet oracle, ce parasite peu dispendieux, c\u2019est son journal.\u00a0\u00bb<span id=\"282\" class=\"cit-num\">282<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"auteur\">Alfred de <span class=\"caps\">VIGNY<\/span> (1797-1863),<em> Journal d\u2019un po\u00e8te<\/em> (1839)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Encore un d\u00e9\u00e7u de la politique et de ses contemporains.<\/p>\n<p>Le d\u00e9senchantement semble inh\u00e9rent au romantisme. Celui de Vigny est sinc\u00e8re plus que tout autre. Il date de la Restauration \u2013 la vie de garnison lassa vite le jeune militaire \u00e9lev\u00e9 dans le culte des armes et de l\u2019honneur \u2013 et s\u2019aggrave lors de la r\u00e9volution de 1830, qui am\u00e8ne au pouvoir un bourgeois si peu roi, aux yeux de la vieille aristocratie dont Vigny est le d\u00e9licat et sensible rejeton.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"citation-small\">\u00ab\u00a0Le monde a la d\u00e9marche d\u2019un sot, il s\u2019avance en se balan\u00e7ant mollement entre deux absurdit\u00e9s\u00a0: le droit divin et la souverainet\u00e9 du peuple.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<p class=\"auteur\">Alfred de <span class=\"caps\">VIGNY<\/span> (1797-1863), <em>Journal d\u2019un po\u00e8te<\/em> (posthume)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u00c9lev\u00e9 dans une famille de vieille noblesse avec le culte de la monarchie de droit divin, \u00e9corch\u00e9 vif par les bouleversements de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 depuis sa naissance en 1797, Vigny s\u2019est pris d\u2019enthousiasme pour la R\u00e9volution de 1848 et s\u2019est pr\u00e9sent\u00e9 \u00e0 la d\u00e9putation en Charente. Il obtient si peu de voix que cet \u00e9chec politique le rend de nouveau bien amer.<\/p>\n<p>Ses confr\u00e8res ont plus de chance\u00a0: Lamartine triomphe (dans dix d\u00e9partements, avec 1 600 000 voix) et Hugo est bien \u00e9lu. Chateaubriand, octog\u00e9naire \u00e0 demi paralys\u00e9, retir\u00e9 de la vie politique, mourra en juillet. Musset, bien que plus jeune, ne va pas bien et ne se pr\u00e9sente pas non plus.<\/p>\n<p>Tocqueville l\u2019historien est \u00e9lu. Michelet vibre naturellement pour la r\u00e9volution, mais milite par ses cours d\u2019histoire et son oeuvre engag\u00e9e.<\/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\u00a0Nos ma\u00eetres ressemblaient \u00e0 des h\u00e9rauts d\u2019armes, nos salles d\u2019\u00e9tudes \u00e0 des casernes, nos r\u00e9cr\u00e9ations \u00e0 des manoeuvres et nos examens \u00e0 des revues.\u00a0\u00bb Alfred de VIGNY (1797-1863), Servitude et grandeur militaires (1835) T\u00e9moignage d\u2019un ancien \u00e9l\u00e8ve du lyc\u00e9e Bonaparte (aujourd\u2019hui Condorcet), \u00e2g\u00e9 de 14 ans en 1811, n\u00e9 d\u2019une famille aristocratique et de tradition 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