{"id":22,"date":"2009-05-26T18:56:14","date_gmt":"2009-05-26T16:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.claude-arnaud.com\/fr\/?page_id=22"},"modified":"2021-04-06T14:35:55","modified_gmt":"2021-04-06T13:35:55","slug":"la-quatrieme-de-couverture","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.claude-arnaud.com\/fr\/biographies\/chamfort\/la-quatrieme-de-couverture","title":{"rendered":"Chamfort : la quatri\u00e8me de couverture"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>LA QUATRIEME DE COUVERTURE<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n
On conna\u00eet ses maximes sur l\u2019amour<\/strong> – \u201cle contact de deux \u00e9pidermes\u2026\u201d-, mais rien ou presque sur sa vie. Myst\u00e9rieux, double et tra\u00eetre<\/strong>, Chamfort<\/strong><\/span> est un inconnu illustre, presque un fant\u00f4me, tel Sade<\/strong> avant sa red\u00e9couverte. Cette premi\u00e8re biographie exhaustive<\/strong> <\/span>r\u00e9v\u00e8le un caract\u00e8re extraordinairement complexe<\/strong>. B\u00e2tard d\u2019une aristocrate et d\u2019un chanoine, tour \u00e0 tour libertin, po\u00e8te et jacobin, Chamfort<\/strong><\/span> accumule les contradictions. Sauvage et mondain, misanthrope et id\u00e9aliste, \u00e9crivain et refusant jusqu\u2019\u00e0 l\u2019id\u00e9e d\u2019\u00e9crire<\/strong>, il est un des t\u00e9moins les plus brillants de la premi\u00e8re soci\u00e9t\u00e9 du spectacle<\/span><\/strong>, d\u2019une acuit\u00e9 et d\u2019un nihilisme tr\u00e8s actuel. \u201cTout a l\u2019air \u00e9crit la veille\u201d disait Cocteau<\/strong><\/span> \u00e0 la lecture de ses maximes. Seuls les noms et les dates seraient \u00e0 changer dans ce portrait – \u00e0 mi-chemin du pastel et du scanner<\/strong> – d\u2019un si\u00e8cle qui a invent\u00e9 la libert\u00e9 religieuse, sexuelle et politique.<\/h6>\n
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Ayant c\u00f4toy\u00e9 Rousseau<\/strong>, Voltaire<\/strong><\/span>, Diderot<\/strong>, Rivarol et Talleyrand<\/strong><\/span>, aim\u00e9 la Guimard<\/strong><\/span>, Marthe Buffon<\/strong> et Julie Talma<\/span><\/strong>, pr\u00e9par\u00e9 d\u00e8s 1785 la R\u00e9volution avec Mirabeau<\/strong> dans le giron de l\u2019Ancien R\u00e9gime, Chamfort<\/strong><\/span> pr\u00e9figure les r\u00eaves et les d\u00e9sillusions de l\u2019id\u00e9ologie moderne. Comment soutient-on la mort de Louis XVI<\/strong><\/span> apr\u00e8s l\u2019avoir fait pleurer avec sa trag\u00e9die ? Comment se suicide-t-on sous la Terreur apr\u00e8s avoir sacrifi\u00e9 son argent, sa sant\u00e9 et sa vie priv\u00e9e \u00e0 la libert\u00e9<\/strong> ? C\u2019est l\u2019\u00e9nigme qui a fascin\u00e9 Chateaubriand<\/strong>, Stendhal<\/strong>, Nietzsche<\/strong><\/span> et Cioran<\/strong><\/span> et que Claude Arnaud<\/strong><\/span> tente de r\u00e9soudre. En filigrane appara\u00eet un des premiers r\u00e9publicains de France.<\/h6>\n<\/blockquote>\n
\"\"<\/a>Le volume s\u2019\u00e9ch\u00e8ve sur 70 maximes, anecdotes, mots et dialogues in\u00e9dits ou jamais r\u00e9\u00e9dit\u00e9s.<\/strong><\/em><\/h6>\n
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(Photo Hannah, Agence Opale)<\/span><\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

LA QUATRIEME DE COUVERTURE On conna\u00eet ses maximes sur l\u2019amour – \u201cle contact de deux \u00e9pidermes\u2026\u201d-, mais rien ou presque sur sa vie. Myst\u00e9rieux, double et tra\u00eetre, Chamfort est un inconnu illustre, presque un fant\u00f4me, tel Sade avant sa red\u00e9couverte. Cette premi\u00e8re biographie exhaustive r\u00e9v\u00e8le un caract\u00e8re extraordinairement complexe. B\u00e2tard d\u2019une aristocrate et d\u2019un chanoine, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":20,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-22","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","count-0","even alt","author-admin","last"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.claude-arnaud.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.claude-arnaud.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.claude-arnaud.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.claude-arnaud.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.claude-arnaud.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/www.claude-arnaud.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13140,"href":"https:\/\/www.claude-arnaud.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22\/revisions\/13140"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.claude-arnaud.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.claude-arnaud.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}