{"id":6328,"date":"2018-08-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-31T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/2025\/06\/26\/paul-deschanel\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T09:17:23","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T07:17:23","slug":"paul-deschanel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/paul-deschanel\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Deschanel"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"citation-small\">\u00ab\u00a0Nous voterons pour Deschanel en criant \u00ab\u00a0vive Clemenceau\u00a0!\u00a0\u00bb.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<p class=\"auteur\">Exclamation d\u2019un d\u00e9put\u00e9, f\u00e9vrier 1920. <em>La Vie politique sous la <span class=\"caps\">III<\/span>e R\u00e9publique<\/em>, Jean-Marie Mayeur<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>1920. Qui va remplacer Poincar\u00e9 en fin de septennat \u00e0 la pr\u00e9sidence de la R\u00e9publique\u00a0?<\/p>\n<p>Clemenceau, pr\u00e9sident du Conseil, souhaite \u00eatre \u00e9lu, mais ne pose pas officiellement sa candidature, laissant ses amis la proposer. Par son intransigeance, il s\u2019est fait des ennemis aussi bien \u00e0 gauche qu\u2019\u00e0 droite, et le Bloc national lui pr\u00e9f\u00e8re Paul Deschanel.<\/p>\n<p>La France en paix pense pouvoir se passer d\u2019un homme fort et la r\u00e8gle du jeu politique \u00e9loigne de la pr\u00e9sidence tout personnage risquant de porter ombrage au pouvoir parlementaire. Le vieux Tigre de 79 ans vivra encore pr\u00e8s de dix ann\u00e9es, pass\u00e9es \u00e0 \u00e9crire et \u00e0 voyager.<\/p>\n<p class=\"citation-small\">\u00ab\u00a0Ce peuple m\u2019acclame mais je ne suis pas digne de lui.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<p class=\"auteur\">Paul <span class=\"caps\">DESCHANEL<\/span> (1855-1922) A la suite de l\u2019\u00e9lection pr\u00e9sidentielle du 17 janvier 1920<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Figure des R\u00e9publicains mod\u00e9r\u00e9s, partisan d\u2019une troisi\u00e8me voie entre lib\u00e9ralisme \u00e9conomique et socialisme, Paul Deschanel est \u00e9lu \u00e0 la surprise g\u00e9n\u00e9rale pr\u00e9sident de la Chambre des d\u00e9put\u00e9s en 1898. En 1912, il retrouvera ce poste qu\u2019il conserve pendant toute la Grande Guerre, refusant de devenir pr\u00e9sident du Conseil.<\/p>\n<p>Lors de la r\u00e9union pr\u00e9paratoire en vue de l\u2019\u00e9lection pr\u00e9sidentielle de janvier 1920, il tient en \u00e9chec Clemenceau, \u00ab\u00a0p\u00e8re la Victoire\u00a0\u00bb, trop forte personnalit\u00e9 aux yeux du personnel politique, la paix revenue. Deschanel est \u00e9lu avec le plus grand nombre de voix jamais obtenu pour ce type d\u2019\u00e9lection sous la Troisi\u00e8me R\u00e9publique\u00a0! Mais l\u2019homme est malade et il le sait. Victime d\u2019un \u00e9tat anxio-d\u00e9pressif, surmen\u00e9 et sous hypnotique, il ouvre la fen\u00eatre pour respirer et tombe du train pr\u00e9sidentiel en pleine nuit, se retrouvant sur les rails en pyjama, ensanglant\u00e9. Ce fait divers d\u00e9fraie la chronique en mai 1920.\u00a0 Ce n\u2019est pas sa premi\u00e8re \u00ab\u00a0excentricit\u00e9\u00a0\u00bb. Sept mois apr\u00e8s son investiture, objet de rumeurs de folie infond\u00e9es, \u00ab\u00a0Fou-fou-train-train\u00a0\u00bb d\u00e9missionne. Malade des poumons, il meurt \u00e0 67 ans.<\/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\u00a0Nous voterons pour Deschanel en criant \u00ab\u00a0vive Clemenceau\u00a0!\u00a0\u00bb.\u00a0\u00bb Exclamation d\u2019un d\u00e9put\u00e9, f\u00e9vrier 1920. La Vie politique sous la IIIe R\u00e9publique, Jean-Marie Mayeur 1920. Qui va remplacer Poincar\u00e9 en fin de septennat \u00e0 la pr\u00e9sidence de la R\u00e9publique&nbsp;? Clemenceau, pr\u00e9sident du Conseil, souhaite \u00eatre \u00e9lu, mais ne pose pas officiellement sa candidature, laissant ses amis la [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11399,"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":12,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6328","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\/6328","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=6328"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6329,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6328\/revisions\/6329"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}