{"id":19042,"date":"2026-02-08T11:55:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T09:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/?p=19042"},"modified":"2026-02-12T09:02:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T07:02:20","slug":"danton-etait-il-vertueux-ou-demon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/2026\/02\/08\/danton-etait-il-vertueux-ou-demon\/","title":{"rendered":"Danton, \u00e9tait-il vertueux ou d\u00e9mon ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"paragraph\">\n<p>Surnomm\u00e9 le Mirabeau de la Populace et des Sans-Culottes, Danton \u00e9tait, pour l\u2019acad\u00e9micien Hippolyte Taine, un esprit sain, un g\u00e9nie, original et spontan\u00e9, poss\u00e9dant l\u2019aptitude politique. En un mot, il \u00e9tait bonhomme.<\/p>\n<p>Pour le tribunal r\u00e9volutionnaire qui l\u2019a jug\u00e9 et envoy\u00e9 \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9chafaud, il avait pour projet liberticide de d\u00e9truire le gouvernement r\u00e9publicain et de r\u00e9tablir la royaut\u00e9. Donc un d\u00e9mon. \u00c0 cette accusation, des plus inattendues, dont la lecture sera faite par Saint-Just le jour m\u00eame \u00e0 la Convention, Georges-Jacques r\u00e9pondit (on dirait du Socrate)\u00a0: \u00ab Les l\u00e2ches qui me calomnient oseraient-ils m\u2019attaquer en face, qu\u2019ils se montrent, et je les couvrirais eux-m\u00eames de l\u2019ignominie, de l\u2019opprobre qui les caract\u00e9rise\u00a0?\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<p>Bonhomie <br \/>ou malveillance<\/p>\n<p>Quatre-cent-soixante pages furent ainsi n\u00e9cessaires \u00e0 l\u2019auteur pour nous faire comprendre pourquoi Robespierre tenait \u00e0 l\u2019\u0153il celui qui n\u2019avait pas attendu l\u2019apparition d\u2019un Hugo pour dire qu\u2019apr\u00e8s le pain, l\u2019\u00e9ducation \u00e9tait le premier besoin du peuple. Ni celle d\u2019un Stendhal pour hurler que, pour vaincre, il nous faut de l\u2019audace. Vous serez d\u2019accord, lecteurs, pour d\u00e9couvrir par vous-m\u00eames si ce livre vous a convaincus de la Bonhomie de Danton ou de sa malveillance.<\/p>\n<p>Qui se hasarderait \u00e0 nier qu\u2019il y a en chaque \u00eatre un je-ne-sais-quoi mi-ange mi-d\u00e9mon, et que cette double nature ne d\u00e9pend pas de sa volont\u00e9, mais des circonstances\u00a0? Le souffle qui anime ces pages est tout \u00e0 l\u2019honneur de Jean-Paul Desprat et des id\u00e9es qu\u2019il d\u00e9fend.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"paragraph\">\n<p><i>Le Rocher, 24<\/i><i>\u00a0<\/i><i>euros<\/i><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Surnomm&eacute; le Mirabeau de la Populace et des Sans-Culottes, Danton &eacute;tait, pour l&rsquo;acad&eacute;micien Hippolyte Taine, un esprit sain, un g&eacute;nie, original et spontan&eacute;, poss&eacute;dant l&rsquo;aptitude politique. 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