{"id":5614,"date":"2016-02-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-24T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/2025\/06\/23\/clemenceau-la-guerre-cest-une-chose-trop-grave-pour-la-confier-a-des-militaires-2\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T09:15:36","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T07:15:36","slug":"clemenceau-la-guerre-cest-une-chose-trop-grave-pour-la-confier-a-des-militaires-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/clemenceau-la-guerre-cest-une-chose-trop-grave-pour-la-confier-a-des-militaires-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Clemenceau : \u00ab La guerre ! C\u2019est une chose trop grave pour la confier \u00e0 des militaires.\u00a0\u00bb"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<p><a title=\"Clemenceau citations histoire\" href=\"https:\/\/www.histoire-en-citations.fr\/boutique\/volume-8\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/histoire-en-citations-08-2d-empire-3e-rep-2.jpg\" alt=\"Citations Clemenceau\" title=\"Citations Clemenceau\" style=\"float: left;margin-left: 10px;margin-right: 10px\" width=\"150\" height=\"200\"><\/a><a title=\"Dictionnaire histoire citations\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.fr\/Lhistoire-citations-dictionnaire-Mich%C3%A8le-Ressi-ebook\/dp\/B078TMC9J8\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1516612484&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=ressi+dictionnaire\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/histoire-en-citations-0-dictionnaire-5.jpg\" alt=\"Dictionnaire citations\" title=\"Dictionnaire citations\" style=\"margin-left: 10px;margin-right: 10px;vertical-align: baseline\" width=\"150\" height=\"200\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Clemenceau et la Grande Guerre.<\/p>\n<p>C\u2019est l\u2019un des paradoxes de l\u2019Histoire. Il m\u00e9prise l\u2019arm\u00e9e, en tout cas la plupart de ses chefs, mais devient chef de guerre hors pair, payant de sa personne et allant dans les tranch\u00e9es. <\/p>\n<p>L\u2019explication tient en une courte citation. Ensuite, l\u2019Histoire se d\u00e9roule, en une ann\u00e9e terrible.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"citation\">\u00ab\u00a0La guerre\u00a0! C\u2019est une chose trop grave pour la confier \u00e0 des militaires.\u00a0\u00bb<span id=\"2579\" class=\"cit-num\">2579<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"auteur\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.histoire-en-citations.fr\/indexation\/clemenceau\">Georges <span class=\"caps\">CLEMENCEAU<\/span><\/a> (1841-1929)<\/p>\n<p class=\"source\"><em>Soixante Ann\u00e9es d\u2019histoire fran\u00e7aise\u00a0: Clemenceau<\/em> (1932), Georges Suarez<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u00c0 76\u00a0ans, il est appel\u00e9 \u00e0 la t\u00eate du gouvernement et en dernier recours, par le pr\u00e9sident Poincar\u00e9 (16\u00a0novembre 1917). Jusque-l\u00e0, le Tigre s\u2019est tenu \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9cart, accablant de sarcasmes les chefs civils et militaires\u00a0: tr\u00e8s oppos\u00e9 \u00e0 la dictature de fait du mar\u00e9chal Joffre \u2013 le grand homme de la France jusqu\u2019en 1916 \u2013 comme aux ministres de la Guerre qui se succ\u00e8dent \u2013\u00a0Millerand le premier, qui couvrait Joffre sans le contr\u00f4ler.<\/p>\n<p>D\u00e9sormais, plus question de laisser carte blanche au g\u00e9n\u00e9ral en chef\u00a0! \u00c0 la t\u00eate d\u2019une France fatigu\u00e9e, divis\u00e9e, \u00e0 bout de nerfs et de guerre, et devenue d\u00e9faitiste par lassitude, il saura imposer son autorit\u00e9, \u00e0 l\u2019arm\u00e9e comme au pays et m\u00e9ritera son nouveau surnom de P\u00e8re la Victoire.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"citation-small\">\u00ab\u00a0Nous voulons vaincre pour \u00eatre justes.\u00a0\u00bb<span id=\"2604\" class=\"cit-num\">2604<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"auteur\">Clemenceau, D\u00e9claration minist\u00e9rielle du 20\u00a0novembre 1917<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"citation-small\">\u00ab\u00a0Sur le front, les soldats voyaient appara\u00eetre un vieil homme au feutre en bataille, qui brandissait un gourdin et poussait brutalement les g\u00e9n\u00e9raux vers la victoire. C\u2019\u00e9tait Georges Clemenceau.\u00a0\u00bb<span id=\"2605\" class=\"cit-num\">2605<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"auteur\">Andr\u00e9 Maurois<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"citation-small\">\u00ab\u00a0Ma formule est la m\u00eame partout. Politique int\u00e9rieure\u00a0? Je fais la guerre. Politique \u00e9trang\u00e8re\u00a0? Je fais la guerre. Je fais toujours la guerre.\u00a0\u00bb<span id=\"2606\" class=\"cit-num\">2606<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"auteur\">Clemenceau, Chambre des d\u00e9put\u00e9s, 8\u00a0mars 1918<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"citation-small\">\u00ab\u00a0Je me battrai devant Paris, je me battrai dans Paris, je me battrai derri\u00e8re Paris\u00a0!\u00a0\u00bb<span id=\"2609\" class=\"cit-num\">2609<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"auteur\">Clemenceau, printemps 1918<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"citation-small\">\u00ab\u00a0La victoire annonc\u00e9e n\u2019est pas encore venue et le plus terrible compte de peuple \u00e0 peuple s\u2019est ouvert\u00a0: il sera pay\u00e9.\u00a0\u00bb<span id=\"2610\" class=\"cit-num\">2610<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"auteur\">Clemenceau, Discours au S\u00e9nat, 17\u00a0septembre 1918<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"citation-small\">\u00ab\u00a0Honneur \u00e0 nos grands morts. Gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 eux, la France, hier soldat de Dieu, aujourd\u2019hui soldat de l\u2019humanit\u00e9, sera toujours soldat de l\u2019id\u00e9al.\u00a0\u00bb<span id=\"2613\" class=\"cit-num\">2613<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"auteur\">Clemenceau, P\u00e8re la Victoire, Discours \u00e9crit et parl\u00e9 \u00e0 la Chambre des d\u00e9put\u00e9s, 11\u00a0novembre 1918, jour de l\u2019Armistice<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Histoire de l\u2019arm\u00e9e en citations \u00e0 suivre.<\/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>Clemenceau et la Grande Guerre.C\u2019est l\u2019un des paradoxes de l\u2019Histoire. Il m\u00e9prise l\u2019arm\u00e9e, en tout cas la plupart de ses chefs, mais devient chef de guerre hors pair, payant de sa personne et allant dans les tranch\u00e9es. L\u2019explication tient en une courte citation. Ensuite, l\u2019Histoire se d\u00e9roule, en une ann\u00e9e terrible. \u00ab\u00a0La guerre\u00a0! C\u2019est une [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10922,"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":19,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1582],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-citation-du-jour-confier-georges-clemenceau-grave-guerre-militaires-prologue-troisieme-republique-trop-grave"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5614","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=5614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5617,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5614\/revisions\/5617"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}