{"id":5688,"date":"2018-02-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-14T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/2025\/06\/23\/maynard-le-tyran-mitre-de-la-france-trouva-pourtant-un-coeur-de-chair-pres-de-la-miaulante-engeance\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T09:17:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T07:17:03","slug":"maynard-le-tyran-mitre-de-la-france-trouva-pourtant-un-coeur-de-chair-pres-de-la-miaulante-engeance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/maynard-le-tyran-mitre-de-la-france-trouva-pourtant-un-coeur-de-chair-pres-de-la-miaulante-engeance\/","title":{"rendered":"Maynard : \u00ab Le tyran mitr\u00e9 de la France trouva pourtant un c\u0153ur de chair pr\u00e8s de la miaulante engeance&#8230;\u00a0\u00bb"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<p>Que d\u2019amour, en ce jour de la Saint Valentin\u00a0!\u00a0 Richelieu et les chats\u00a0: un cas incroyable mais vrai.<\/p>\n<p>Un tableau en fait foi\u00a0!<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"citation\">\u00ab\u00a0Le tyran mitr\u00e9 de la France trouva pourtant un c\u0153ur de chair pr\u00e8s de la miaulante engeance.<br>Dans les rares et courts moments que les politiques tourments n\u00e9cessitaient d\u2019intermittence, <br>Un panier de chatons charmants divertissait son \u00c9minence.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<p class=\"auteur\">Fran\u00e7ois Maynard, <em>\u00c9pigramme \u00e0 la mort de Richelieu<\/em> (1642)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Le cardinal reste dans l\u2019Histoire comme le \u00ab\u00a0sphinx \u00e0 robe rouge\u00a0\u00bb qui a \u00ab\u00a0foudroy\u00e9 plut\u00f4t que gouvern\u00e9 les humains\u00a0\u00bb (Michelet) et tenu les femmes en pi\u00e8tre estime. Pour les chats, c\u2019est un ma\u00eetre sans \u00e9gal.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/richelieu_chat.jpg\" alt=\"Richelieu chats\" title=\"Richelieu chats\" style=\"float: left;margin-left: 10px;margin-right: 10px\" width=\"220\" height=\"262\">Au Palais Cardinal (sa r\u00e9sidence parisienne donnant sur le jardin de l\u2019actuel Palais-Royal), il y a deux domestiques au service des chats, nourris au blanc de poulet. Une vaste pi\u00e8ce leur est r\u00e9serv\u00e9e, la chatterie attenante \u00e0 sa chambre, et son m\u00e9decin personnel veille sur leur sant\u00e9. Malgr\u00e9 sa t\u00e2che \u00e9puisante, le cardinal joue chaque matin avec eux et dort avec ses favoris. Ce grand malade des nerfs invente la \u00ab\u00a0ronron-th\u00e9rapie\u00a0\u00bb pratiqu\u00e9e de nos jours par les fans de chats. Il se d\u00e9tend en compagnie de ses amis fourr\u00e9s, avec un faible pour les Angoras et les chatons cach\u00e9s dans ses manches, au Conseil des ministres. <\/p>\n<p>Richelieu contribue \u00e0 la r\u00e9habilitation du chat en lui redonnant son r\u00f4le de d\u00e9ratiseur, lui attribuant une autre mission d\u2019importance\u00a0: prot\u00e9ger les tr\u00e9sors de la librairie royale. <\/p>\n<p>\u00c0 sa mort, ses 14 chats h\u00e9ritent d\u2019une maison, d\u2019une pension et leurs noms pour le moins originaux, couch\u00e9s sur son testament, entrent dans l\u2019Histoire\u00a0: Felimare (tigr\u00e9), Gavroche (b\u00e2tard d\u2019Angora), Gazette (l\u2019indiscret), Lucifer (noir de jais), Ludovic le Cruel (tueur de rats impitoyable) et Ludoviska (son amante polonaise), Mimi-Paillon (Angora dor\u00e9), Mounard le Fougueux (querelleur et capricieux), Perruque (tomb\u00e9e de la perruque du po\u00e8te Racan), Pyrame et Thysb\u00e9 (deux amoureux souvent entrelac\u00e9s), Racan (du nom du po\u00e8te et acad\u00e9micien), Rubis sur l\u2019ongle (hyper soucieux de son apparence), Serpolet (adorateur du soleil), Soumise (sa favorite, Angora blanche). <\/p>\n<p>Richelieu d\u00e9roge \u00e0 la r\u00e8gle des hommes de pouvoir tr\u00e8s autoritaires et r\u00e9put\u00e9s ne pas supporter l\u2019insoumission de cette race \u2013 Napol\u00e9on en fait partie, mais l\u2019empereur \u00e9tait allergique aux chats.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"histoire du chat\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.fr\/Histoire-du-chat-Mich%C3%A8le-Ressi\/dp\/B077Y2RH78\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1518342030&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=ressi\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/histoire_du_chat_0-2.jpg\" alt=\"histoire du chat\" title=\"histoire du chat\" style=\"vertical-align: baseline\" width=\"150\" height=\"202\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>D\u00e9couvrez mon livre <em><a title=\"histoire du chat\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.fr\/Histoire-du-chat-Mich%C3%A8le-Ressi\/dp\/B077Y2RH78\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1518342030&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=ressi\" target=\"_blank\">l\u2019Histoire du chat<\/a><\/em>, pour le plaisir de partager l\u2019amour de l\u2019Histoire et la passion du Chat.<\/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>Que d\u2019amour, en ce jour de la Saint Valentin\u00a0!\u00a0 Richelieu et les chats\u00a0: un cas incroyable mais vrai. Un tableau en fait foi\u00a0! \u00ab\u00a0Le tyran mitr\u00e9 de la France trouva pourtant un c\u0153ur de chair pr\u00e8s de la miaulante engeance.Dans les rares et courts moments que les politiques tourments n\u00e9cessitaient d\u2019intermittence, Un panier de chatons [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10930,"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":11,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5688","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\/5688","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=5688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5691,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5688\/revisions\/5691"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}