{"id":6048,"date":"2018-05-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-10T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/2025\/06\/23\/louis-xvi-la-philosophie-trop-audacieuse-du-siecle-a-une-arriere-pensee\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T08:44:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T06:44:07","slug":"louis-xvi-la-philosophie-trop-audacieuse-du-siecle-a-une-arriere-pensee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/louis-xvi-la-philosophie-trop-audacieuse-du-siecle-a-une-arriere-pensee\/","title":{"rendered":"Louis XVI : \u00ab La philosophie trop audacieuse du si\u00e8cle a une arri\u00e8re-pens\u00e9e.\u00a0\u00bb"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<p><a title=\"lumi\u00e8res citations\" href=\"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/boutique-4\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/histoire-en-citations-volume-4-21.jpg\" alt=\"lumi\u00e8res citations\" title=\"lumi\u00e8res citations\" style=\"float: left;margin: 10px\" width=\"165\" height=\"220\"><\/a>Louis <span class=\"caps\">XVI<\/span> d\u00e9couvre trop tard le sens des \u00ab\u00a0Lumi\u00e8res\u00a0\u00bb, la nouvelle philosophie et la force des id\u00e9es. Trop tard aussi pour faire acte d\u2019autorit\u00e9. La course \u00e0 l\u2019ab\u00eeme commence.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"lumi\u00e8res citations\" href=\"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/boutique-4\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">\u00c0 feuilleter pour tout savoir.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"citation\"><span class=\"enonce\">\u00ab\u00a0Prenons-y garde, nous aurons peut-\u00eatre un jour \u00e0 nous reprocher un peu trop d\u2019indulgence pour les philosophes et pour leurs opinions [\u2026] La philosophie trop audacieuse du si\u00e8cle a une arri\u00e8re-pens\u00e9e.\u00a0\u00bb<span id=\"1246\" class=\"cit-num\">1246<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"auteur\"><a href=\"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/indexation-2\/\"><span data-href=\"\/auteurs\/louis-xvi\"><span class=\"author\"><span class=\"name\"><span class=\"caps\">LOUIS<\/span> <span class=\"caps\">XVI<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a> (1754-1793), Lettre \u00e0 M. de Malesherbes, 13\u00a0d\u00e9cembre 1786<\/p>\n<p class=\"source\"><cite>Correspondance politique et confidentielle in\u00e9dite de Louis\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">XVI<\/span>, avec ses fr\u00e8res, et plusieurs personnes c\u00e9l\u00e8bres, pendant les derni\u00e8res ann\u00e9es de son r\u00e8gne, et jusqu\u2019\u00e0 sa mort<\/cite> (posthume, 1803).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Malesherbes a voulu la presse plus libre, aid\u00e9 les philosophes \u00e0 r\u00e9pandre leurs id\u00e9es, permis \u00e0 l\u2019<em>Encyclop\u00e9die<\/em> de para\u00eetre, malgr\u00e9 le Parlement hostile. Plusieurs fois disgraci\u00e9, il revient au Conseil du roi en 1787, et sera l\u2019un de ses avocats en 1792. Louis\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">XVI<\/span> manifeste ici une prise de conscience tardive d\u2019un\u00a0si\u00e8cle de Lumi\u00e8res d\u00e9j\u00e0 r\u00e9pandues dans une opinion publique toujours plus avide de <a href=\"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/indexation\/\">r\u00e9formes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"citation-small\">\u00ab\u00a0C\u2019est l\u00e9gal parce que je le veux\u00a0!\u00a0\u00bb<span id=\"1253\" class=\"cit-num\">1253<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"auteur\"><a href=\"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/indexation-2\/\"><span class=\"caps\">LOUIS<\/span> <span class=\"caps\">XVI<\/span><\/a> (1754-1793), au duc d\u2019Orl\u00e9ans, Parlement, 19\u00a0novembre\u00a01787<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>C\u2019est l\u2019un des derniers \u00e9pisodes de la guerre entre le roi et ses magistrats. Louis\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">XVI<\/span> se rend au Parlement pour imposer l\u2019enregistrement d\u2019un \u00e9dit autorisant \u00e0 \u00e9mettre une s\u00e9rie d\u2019emprunts de 420\u00a0millions de livres. Le jeune duc d\u2019Orl\u00e9ans (futur Philippe \u00c9galit\u00e9), chef de la branche cadette et premier prince de sang, l\u2019un des plus constants opposants au roi son cousin, ose qualifier d\u2019ill\u00e9gale la proc\u00e9dure. D\u2019o\u00f9 la r\u00e9plique du roi. Et pour son insolence, le duc est envoy\u00e9 en exil, dans son ch\u00e2teau de Villers-Cotter\u00eats.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"citation-small\">\u00ab\u00a0Parlement \u00e0 vendre <br>Ministres \u00e0 pendre <br>Couronne \u00e0 louer.\u00a0\u00bb<span id=\"1255\" class=\"cit-num\">1255<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"auteur\">Mots grav\u00e9s sur les murs du Palais de justice, mai\u00a01788<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Des meneurs crient au coup d\u2019\u00c9tat. Des soul\u00e8vements \u00e9clatent partout en France, orchestr\u00e9s par une campagne de cabales et de pamphlets. En Languedoc \u00e0 Toulouse, en Bretagne \u00e0 Rennes, on manifeste. En Dauphin\u00e9 \u00e0 Grenoble le 7\u00a0juin\u00a01788, on se soul\u00e8vera pendant la \u00ab\u00a0journ\u00e9e des Tuiles\u00a0\u00bb.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"citation-small\">\u00ab\u00a0Tremblez, tyrans, votre r\u00e8gne va finir.\u00a0\u00bb<span id=\"1256\" class=\"cit-num\">1256<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"auteur\">\u00c9criteau plac\u00e9 au Th\u00e9\u00e2tre des Italiens, sur la loge de la reine, mai\u00a01788<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Le roi essaie de faire passer les \u00e9dits par lit de justice. Les Parlements organisent la r\u00e9sistance, font la gr\u00e8ve de la justice, et demandent la r\u00e9union des \u00c9tats g\u00e9n\u00e9raux. Les remontrances succ\u00e8dent aux remontrances, les \u00e9meutes aux \u00e9meutes. Le roi doit fixer la date de la convocation tant redout\u00e9e\u00a0: au 1er\u00a0mai 1789. Premi\u00e8re r\u00e9union, le 5 mai. 1 139 d\u00e9put\u00e9s se r\u00e9unissent \u00e0 Versailles et quelque 50\u00a0000 cahiers de dol\u00e9ances expriment les revendications des Fran\u00e7ais. Date retenue comme le d\u00e9but de la <a href=\"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/indexation\/\">R\u00e9volution<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"citation-small\">\u00ab\u00a0Mais c\u2019est une r\u00e9volte\u00a0?<br>\u2014 Non, Sire, c\u2019est une r\u00e9volution\u00a0!\u00a0\u00bb<span id=\"1333\" class=\"cit-num\">1333<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"auteur\">R\u00e9ponse du duc de la <span class=\"caps\">ROCHEFOUCALD<\/span>\u2013<span class=\"caps\">LIANCOURT<\/span> (1747-1827), \u00e0 Louis\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">XVI<\/span> (1754-1793), r\u00e9veill\u00e9 le soir du 14\u00a0juillet, \u00e0 Versailles<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Le grand ma\u00eetre de la garde-robe s\u2019est permis de se manifester dans la nuit, pour informer le roi que la Bastille est prise et le gouverneur assassin\u00e9. Mieux que son ma\u00eetre, il a compris l\u2019importance symbolique du fait. Ce bref dialogue r\u00e9sume parfaitement la situation.<\/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>Louis XVI d\u00e9couvre trop tard le sens des \u00ab\u00a0Lumi\u00e8res\u00a0\u00bb, la nouvelle philosophie et la force des id\u00e9es. Trop tard aussi pour faire acte d\u2019autorit\u00e9. La course \u00e0 l\u2019ab\u00eeme commence. \u00c0 feuilleter pour tout savoir. \u00ab\u00a0Prenons-y garde, nous aurons peut-\u00eatre un jour \u00e0 nous reprocher un peu trop d&#8217;indulgence pour les philosophes et pour leurs opinions [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11127,"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":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1673],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chronique-citation-du-jour-louis-xvi-siecle-des-lumieres"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6048","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=6048"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13279,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6048\/revisions\/13279"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}