{"id":6304,"date":"2018-07-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-20T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/2025\/06\/23\/michelet-la-feodalite-ce-vieux-tyran-caduc-gagna-fort-a-mourir-de-la-main-dun-tyran\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T08:44:02","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T06:44:02","slug":"michelet-la-feodalite-ce-vieux-tyran-caduc-gagna-fort-a-mourir-de-la-main-dun-tyran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/michelet-la-feodalite-ce-vieux-tyran-caduc-gagna-fort-a-mourir-de-la-main-dun-tyran\/","title":{"rendered":"Michelet : \u00ab La f\u00e9odalit\u00e9, ce vieux tyran caduc, gagna fort \u00e0 mourir de la main d&#039;un tyran.\u00a0\u00bb"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<p><a title=\"citations histoire moyen age\" href=\"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/boutique-10\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/histoire-en-citations-volume-1-31.jpg\" alt=\"citations histoire moyen age\" title=\"citations histoire moyen age\" style=\"float: left;margin: 10px\" width=\"150\" height=\"200\"><\/a>Jugement de la post\u00e9rit\u00e9. Les historiens ne se bousculent pas pour ajouter aux <em>M\u00e9moires<\/em> de Commynes, qui fit d\u00e9cid\u00e9ment beaucoup pour le roi. Michelet fait le \u00ab\u00a0service minimum\u00a0\u00bb. Hommage paradoxalement rendu \u00e0 Louis <span class=\"caps\">XI<\/span> par une reine de t\u00eate plus que de c\u0153ur et par le \u00ab\u00a0prince des po\u00e8tes\u00a0\u00bb (\u00e9lu comme tel en 1912 par la presse).<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"citations histoire moyen age\" href=\"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/boutique-10\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">\u00c0 feuilleter pour en savoir plus.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"citation\"><span class=\"enonce\">\u00ab\u00a0La f\u00e9odalit\u00e9, ce vieux tyran caduc, gagna fort \u00e0 mourir de la main d\u2019un tyran.\u00a0\u00bb<span id=\"271\" class=\"cit-num\">271<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"auteur\"><a title=\"michelet citations\" href=\"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/indexation\/\"><span data-href=\"\/auteurs\/jules-michelet\"><span class=\"author\"><span class=\"surname\">Jules <\/span><span class=\"name\"><span class=\"caps\">MICHELET<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a> (1798-1874), <cite>Histoire de France<\/cite>, Le Moyen \u00c2ge, tome\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">VI<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Le tyran est Louis\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">XI<\/span>. L\u2019historien n\u2019aime gu\u00e8re ce grand roi plein de petitesses, incarnation d\u2019un Moyen \u00c2ge qui n\u2019en finit pas de finir au bout de mille ans et avant l\u2019explosion heureuse de la Renaissance.<\/p>\n<p>La f\u00e9odalit\u00e9 est \u00e9galement tr\u00e8s attaqu\u00e9e par le peuple, comme en t\u00e9moigne le chroniqueur Froissart, citant ce cri lanc\u00e9 lors de la Jacquerie de 1358, par les paysans accabl\u00e9s de redevances seigneuriales\u00a0: \u00ab\u00a0Tous les nobles du royaume, chevaliers et \u00e9cuyers, honnissaient et trahissaient le royaume, et ce serait grand bien qui tous les d\u00e9truirait.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"citation-small\">\u00ab\u00a0[Richelieu] acheva ce que Louis\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">XI<\/span> avait commenc\u00e9 [\u2026] Il rendit le pouvoir absolu.\u00a0\u00bb<span id=\"582\" class=\"cit-num\">582<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"auteur\">Philippe <span class=\"caps\">BUCHEZ<\/span> (1796-1865) et Pierre-C\u00e9lestin <span class=\"caps\">ROUX<\/span> (1802-1874),<em> Histoire parlementaire de la R\u00e9volution fran\u00e7aise<\/em> (1834-1838)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Historien du r\u00e9cit national au <span class=\"caps\">XIX<\/span>e si\u00e8cle, Buchez fait de Richelieu le premier h\u00e9ros de l\u2019histoire moderne de la France, celui qui se bat pour l\u2019unit\u00e9 du pays et le pouvoir du roi, l\u2019un n\u2019allant pas sans l\u2019autre. Mais tout a r\u00e9ellement commenc\u00e9 sous le long r\u00e8gne de Louis <span class=\"caps\">XI<\/span>.<br>\u00a0<br>(Fait remarquable, ce sont deux ministres qui, sous un roi trop faible (Louis <span class=\"caps\">XIII<\/span>) ou trop jeune (<a title=\"louis xiv citations\" href=\"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/indexation-2\/\">Louis <span class=\"caps\">XIV<\/span><\/a>), vont faire la monarchie absolue et en quelque sorte cr\u00e9er le tr\u00f4ne sur lequel Louis\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">XIV<\/span> s\u2019installera. Deux cardinaux bien diff\u00e9rents, Richelieu avec sa lucidit\u00e9 politique et son caract\u00e8re intransigeant, puis son principal collaborateur et bient\u00f4t successeur, Mazarin, avec son insinuante diplomatie.)<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"citation-small\">\u00ab\u00a0Gardez-vous de livrer bataille et souvenez-vous des conseils de Louis\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">XI<\/span>\u00a0: la paix sign\u00e9e est toujours plus avantageuse avant la d\u00e9faite.\u00a0\u00bb<span id=\"543\" class=\"cit-num\">543<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"auteur\"><a title=\"Catherine de medicis citations\" href=\"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/catherine-de-medicis\/\"><span class=\"caps\">CATHERINE<\/span> <span class=\"caps\">DE<\/span> <span class=\"caps\">M\u00c9DICIS<\/span><\/a> (1519-1589), \u00e0 son fils Henri\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">III<\/span>, 1576. <em>Dictionnaire des citations de l\u2019histoire de France<\/em> (1990), Mich\u00e8le Ressi<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>La reine m\u00e8re est bonne conseill\u00e8re aupr\u00e8s de son fils pr\u00e9f\u00e9r\u00e9, mais c\u2019est la terrible \u00e9poque des guerres de Religion, 36 ann\u00e9es de guerre civile qui vont d\u00e9chirer la France jusqu\u2019\u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9dit de Nantes, sign\u00e9 par Henri <span class=\"caps\">IV<\/span> en 1598.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"citation-small\">\u00ab\u00a0Louis\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">XI<\/span>, gagne-petit, je t\u2019aime, curieux homme.<br>Cher marchand de marrons, que tu sus bien tirer les marrons de Bourgogne.\u00a0\u00bb<span id=\"276\" class=\"cit-num\">276<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"auteur\">Paul <span class=\"caps\">FORT<\/span> (1872-1960), <em>Ballades fran\u00e7aises<\/em> (1898)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Le \u00ab\u00a0prince des po\u00e8tes\u00a0\u00bb rend hommage \u00e0 ce roi mal aim\u00e9, donnant au passage un raccourci des relations entre Louis\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">XI<\/span> et son cousin le duc de Bourgogne, Charles le T\u00e9m\u00e9raire. Rappelons qu\u2019\u00e0 sa mort, Louis <span class=\"caps\">XI<\/span> rattachera son duch\u00e9 \u00e0 la couronne de France. Rappelons aussi la haine du duc contre Louis <span class=\"caps\">XI<\/span> qui lui doit son surnom d\u2019\u00ab\u00a0universelle aragne\u00a0\u00bb (araign\u00e9e), plus antipathique que le renard rus\u00e9 auquel son p\u00e8re Charles <span class=\"caps\">VII<\/span> et son chroniqueur Commynes l\u2019ont \u00e9galement compar\u00e9.<\/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>Jugement de la post\u00e9rit\u00e9. Les historiens ne se bousculent pas pour ajouter aux M\u00e9moires de Commynes, qui fit d\u00e9cid\u00e9ment beaucoup pour le roi. Michelet fait le \u00ab\u00a0service minimum\u00a0\u00bb. Hommage paradoxalement rendu \u00e0 Louis XI par une reine de t\u00eate plus que de c\u0153ur et par le \u00ab\u00a0prince des po\u00e8tes\u00a0\u00bb (\u00e9lu comme tel en 1912 par [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":6,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2022],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-caduc-citation-du-jour-feodalite-jules-michelet-main-mourir-moyen-age-quelques-reperes-tyran-vieux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6304","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=6304"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13216,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6304\/revisions\/13216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}