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Grands Discours Parlementaires Grands discours parlementaires http://philosophie.ac-creteil.fr/spip.php?article1134 Grands discours parlementaires - Humanités, Littérature et Philosophie. Classes de Terminales. - Eloquence et argumentation - Date de mise en ligne : jeudi 24 septembre 2020 Copyright © La philosophie dans l'Académie de Créteil - Tous droits réservés Copyright © La philosophie dans l'Académie de Créteil Page 1/6 Grands discours parlementaires GRANDS MOMENTS D'ÉLOQUENCE PARLEMENTAIRE Révolution française • Sieyès, Mirabeau, Bergasse (15, 16 et 17 juin 1789) : Le tiers état se constitue en Assemblée nationale • Le roi et le comte de Mirabeau (23 juin 1789) : Résistance de l'Assemblée nationale à la volonté du roi • Barnave, Mirabeau (16 juillet 1789) : Débat sur la responsabilité ministérielle • Comte de Castellane, Barnave, Malouet (1er août 1789) : Discours sur la Déclaration des droits de l'homme et du Citoyen • Target, Noailles, Aiguillon (nuit du 4 août 1789) : Abolition des droits féodaux • Robespierre (1790) : Le marc d'argent • Mirabeau (1790) : Éloge funèbre de Benjamin Franklin • Mirabeau (1790) : Le drapeau tricolore • Barnave (1791) : L'inviolabilité royale, la séparation des pouvoirs et la terminaison de la Révolution française • Robespierre (1791) : Le suffrage universel • Condorcet (1792) : L'organisation générale de l'instruction publique • Danton (1792) : « De l'audace, encore de l'audace, toujours de l'audace » • Robespierre (1793) : Gouverner la République • Saint-Just (1793) : L'art militaire de la Nation et la bureaucratie • L'abbé Grégoire (1794) : Rapport sur les destructions opérées par le Vandalisme et les moyens de le réprimer • L'abbé Grégoire (1794) : L'unité de langue • Robespierre (1794) : ultime discours (séance du 8 thermidor) • Boissy d'Anglas (1795) : Liberté des cultes Restauration • François-René de Chateaubriand (1823) : « La réconciliation complète des Français s'achèvera sous la tente » Copyright © La philosophie dans l'Académie de Créteil Page 2/6 Grands discours parlementaires • François Guizot (1830) : « L'esprit d'insurrection est un esprit radicalement contraire à la liberté » Monarchie de Juillet • Odilon Barrot (1831) : « L'élément démocratique » • Alphonse de Lamartine (1838) : « La peine de mort d'une part ne réprime ou ne prévient pas le meurtre, et de l'autre part accroît les dangers de la société en entretenant la férocité des moeurs » • Alphonse de Lamartine (1838) : L'étatisation des chemins de fer • Dominique Arago (1840) : Le droit de vote au rang des droits naturels • Alexis de Tocqueville (1848) : « Je crois que nous nous endormons sur un volcan » Révolution de 1848 et Deuxième République • Hippolyte Detours : L'inviolabilité du suffrage universel • Louis Blanc : La création d'un ministère du progrès et du travail • Paul Rabuan : L'abolition complète de la peine de mort • Alphonse de Lamartine : Le droit au travail • Alphonse de Lamartine : L'élection du Président de la République au suffrage universel • Victor Hugo : La liberté de la presse • Victor Hugo : L'abolition de la peine de mort • Agricol Perdiguier : Le maintien de la limitation des horaires de travail • Pierre-Joseph Proudhon : « Ou la propriété emportera la République, ou la République emportera la propriété » • Pierre Leroux : Limiter la durée journalière de travail • Ledru-Rollin : Le droit au travail • Victor Hugo (1849) : « Détruire la misère » • Victor Hugo (1850) : Le suffrage universel Copyright © La philosophie dans l'Académie de Créteil Page 3/6 Grands discours parlementaires [Jean Jaurès à la tribune] Jean Jaurès à la tribune René Rousseau-Decelle, début du XXe siècle © Assemblée nationale Troisième République • Léon Gambetta (1870) : Contre le plébiscite • Victor Hugo (1871) : Contre l'invalidation de Garibaldi • Léon Gambetta (1880) : « Il n'y a qu'une France et qu'une République » • Paul Bert (1880) : Le principe de laïcité appliqué à l'enseignement primaire obligatoire • Albert de Mun (1884) : La nécessité de la loi sociale • Jules Ferry (1885) : Les fondements de la politique coloniale • Georges Clemenceau (1885) : La colonisation est-elle un devoir de civilisation ? • Jules Ferry (1889) : L'école laïque • Georges Clemenceau (1891) : « La Révolution est un bloc » • Georges Clemenceau (1891) : « Il y a quelque part, sur le pavé de Fourmies, une tache de sang innocent qu'il faut laver à tout prix ! » • Jean Jaurès (1893) : L'émancipation sociale des travailleurs • Jean Jaurès (1905) : « C'est dans le prolétariat que le verbe de la France se fait chair » • Aristide Briand (1905) : Présentation du projet de séparation des Églises et de l'État • René Viviani (1906) : La création d'un ministère du travail • Francis de Pressensé (1906) : Réintégration du capitaine Dreyfus et du colonel Picquart • Marcel Sembat (1912) : « La liberté d'être cubiste » • Jean Jaurès (1913) : Contre la loi des trois ans • Georges Clemenceau (1918) : « Je fais la guerre » • Édouard Herriot (1924) : Le programme du Gouvernement républicain • Léon Blum (1936) : « Nous sommes un Gouvernement de Front populaire » Assemblée consultative provisoire Copyright © La philosophie dans l'Académie de Créteil Page 4/6 Grands discours parlementaires • Général de Gaulle (1945) : « La victoire est aux dimensions de la guerre » Première Assemblée constituante • Général de Gaulle (1945) : Présentation du Gouvernement d'unité nationale • Général de Gaulle (1945) : Déclarations à l'Assemblée constituante (débat sur les crédits de la défense nationale) Quatrième République • René Capitant (1947) : Il faut retourner à l'électeur et le consulter avec une loi électorale nouvelle, comportant un scrutin majoritaire • Pierre Mendès France (1951) : « Pour une solution négociée en Indochine » • Pierre-Henri Teitgen (1952) : Réponses aux attaques de Charles Maurras contre la Résistance • Pierre Mendès France (1953) : « Gouverner c'est choisir » • Pierre Mendès France (1954) : Cessation des hostilités en Indochine • Léopold Sédar Senghor (1957) : « Je vous dis que la France est un arbre vivant » • Maurice Faure (1957) : Ratification des traités de Rome • Général de Gaulle (1958) : Discours d'investiture • François Mitterrand (1958) : Réponse au discours d'investiture du général de Gaulle Copyright © La philosophie dans l'Académie de Créteil Page 5/6 Grands discours parlementaires Cinquième République • Michel Debré (1959) : Les principes des nouvelles institutions • Michel Debré (1959) : L'aide à l'enseignement privé • Paul Reynaud, Georges Pompidou (1962) : Débat de censure • André Malraux (1966) : Présentation du budget de la culture à l'Assemblée nationale • André Malraux (1966) : La création des Paravents de Jean Genet à l'Odéon - Théâtre de France • Jacques Chaban-Delmas (1969) : « La nouvelle société » • Robert Badinter (1981) : « L'abolition de la peine de mort » • Jack Lang (1981) : « Un ministère de la culture, pour quoi faire ? » • Philippe Séguin (1992) : « Oui, nous voulons l'Europe, mais debout » Copyright © La philosophie dans l'Académie de Créteil Page 6/6.
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