{"id":6599,"date":"2016-05-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/2025\/06\/26\/anatole-france-gouverner-cest-mecontenter-2\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T09:10:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T07:10:17","slug":"anatole-france-gouverner-cest-mecontenter-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/anatole-france-gouverner-cest-mecontenter-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Anatole France : \u00ab Gouverner, c&#039;est m\u00e9contenter. \u00bb"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<p><a title=\"Second Empire citations\" href=\"http:\/\/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-volume-8-76.jpg\" alt=\"Second Empire citations\" title=\"Second Empire citations\" style=\"margin: 10px;float: left\" width=\"140\" height=\"187\"><\/a>Le scepticisme philosophique d\u2019Anatole France va de pair avec des engagements sans concession dans les grandes luttes de son temps \u2013 pour soutenir Dreyfus, le socialisme (de Jaur\u00e8s), la la\u00efcit\u00e9 de l\u2019\u00c9tat, le communisme (mais hors parti).<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Second Empire citations\" href=\"http:\/\/www.histoire-en-citations.fr\/boutique\/volume-8\" target=\"_blank\">Feuilletez notre Chronique sur la Troisi\u00e8me R\u00e9publique pour tout savoir.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"citation\"><span class=\"enonce\">\u00ab\u00a0Il n\u2019est pas de gouvernements populaires. Gouverner, c\u2019est m\u00e9contenter.\u00a0\u00bb\u202f<span id=\"2397\" class=\"cit-num\">2397<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"auteur\"><span data-href=\"\/auteurs\/anatole-france\"><span class=\"author\"><span class=\"surname\">Anatole <\/span><span class=\"name\"><span class=\"caps\">FRANCE<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> (1844-1924), <cite>Histoire contemporaine. Monsieur Bergeret \u00e0 Paris<\/cite> (1901)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Telle est l\u2019une des le\u00e7ons tir\u00e9es de ce quatri\u00e8me et dernier volume de son <em>Histoire contemporaine<\/em>. Variation sur un th\u00e8me devenu classique\u00a0: \u00ab\u00a0Gouverner, c\u2019est pr\u00e9voir\u00a0\u00bb (Adolphe Thiers et \u00c9mile de Girardin), \u00ab\u00a0Gouverner, c\u2019est choisir\u00a0\u00bb (Mend\u00e8s France en 1953), \u00ab\u00a0Gouverner, c\u2019est r\u00e9former\u00a0\u00bb (<a title=\"giscard citations\" href=\"https:\/\/www.histoire-en-citations.fr\/indexation\/giscard-destaing\">Giscard d\u2019Estaing<\/a>, 1976).<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"citation-small\">\u00ab\u00a0Envions-le [Zola], sa destin\u00e9e et son c\u0153ur lui firent le sort le plus grand\u00a0: il fut un moment de la conscience humaine.\u00a0\u00bb\u202f<span id=\"2536\" class=\"cit-num\">2536<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"auteur\">Anatole <span class=\"caps\">FRANCE<\/span> (1844-1924), \u00c9loge fun\u00e8bre d\u2019\u00c9mile Zola, 5\u00a0octobre 1902. <em>R\u00e9habilitation d\u2019Alfred Dreyfus par la Chambre des d\u00e9put\u00e9s<\/em> [en ligne], Assembl\u00e9e nationale<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Discours prononc\u00e9 au cimeti\u00e8re de Montmartre, lors de l\u2019enterrement de Zola. Anatole France fait naturellement allusion au combat men\u00e9 par son confr\u00e8re avec lequel il se r\u00e9concilia pour l\u2019occasion, afin que la v\u00e9rit\u00e9 triomphe dans l\u2019affaire Dreyfus. Lui-m\u00eame fit partie de ces intellectuels engag\u00e9s dans le camp des \u00ab\u00a0r\u00e9visionnistes\u00a0\u00bb, se battant contre l\u2019<a title=\"antis\u00e9mitisme citations\" href=\"https:\/\/www.histoire-en-citations.fr\/indexation\/antisemitisme\">antis\u00e9mitisme<\/a> d\u2019une majorit\u00e9 de Fran\u00e7ais.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"citation-small\">\u00ab\u00a0On croit mourir pour la patrie\u00a0; on meurt pour des industriels.\u00a0\u00bb\u202f<span id=\"2641\" class=\"cit-num\">2641<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"auteur\">Anatole <span class=\"caps\">FRANCE<\/span> (1844-1924), <em>L\u2019Humanit\u00e9<\/em>, 18\u00a0juillet 1922<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u00c0 partir des ann\u00e9es 1920, les liens entre la politique et l\u2019\u00e9conomie, l\u2019imbrication de la haute administration, du monde des affaires et du personnel politicien deviennent de plus en plus \u00e9vidents. Et le probl\u00e8me de l\u2019engagement se pose. Cet entre-deux-guerres est la belle \u00e9poque des intellectuels engag\u00e9s.<\/p>\n<p>Prix Nobel de litt\u00e9rature en 1921, Anatole France pr\u00eate son appui au socialisme, puis au communisme naissant. Anim\u00e9 d\u2019une \u00ab\u00a0ardente charit\u00e9 du genre humain\u00a0\u00bb, engag\u00e9 dans maintes luttes politiques (jadis aux c\u00f4t\u00e9s de <a title=\"zola citations\" href=\"https:\/\/www.histoire-en-citations.fr\/indexation\/zola\">Zola<\/a> dans l\u2019Affaire Dreyfus, pour la s\u00e9paration des \u00c9glises et de l\u2019\u00c9tat en 1905, contre le g\u00e9nocide arm\u00e9nien de 1915), il se garde cependant de tout dogmatisme et se m\u00e9fie de toutes les mystiques.<\/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>Le scepticisme philosophique d\u2019Anatole France va de pair avec des engagements sans concession dans les grandes luttes de son temps &#8211; pour soutenir Dreyfus, le socialisme (de Jaur\u00e8s), la la\u00efcit\u00e9 de l\u2019\u00c9tat, le communisme (mais hors parti). Feuilletez notre Chronique sur la Troisi\u00e8me R\u00e9publique pour tout savoir. \u00ab\u00a0Il n&#8217;est pas de gouvernements populaires. Gouverner, c&#8217;est [&#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":7,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anatole-france-citation-du-jour-politique-troisieme-republique"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6599","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=6599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6601,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6599\/revisions\/6601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}