Paul Déroulède
Paul Déroulède , born with Paris the September 2nd 1846 and died in Nice the January 30th 1914 is a writer and nationalist militant French. Its intransigent nationalism and its Revanchisme makes of it an important actor of the Antidreyfusisme.
War of 1870
It was illustrated at the time of the Franco-German Guerre of 1870. It was made prisoner with Bazeilles, escaped and joined the Algerian Tirailleurs. Quoted in the day order and decorated in February 1871, it takes part in the repression of the Commune of Paris at the time of the bloody Semaine of May. Following a fall of horse, it must give up the military career in 1874.
Literary and political career
From now on, by its Literary work and its Political action , it incarnates France of “revenge” claiming the return of Alsace and Lorraine. He writes the Chants of the soldier , of which the famous Clairon , which is worth glory to him and remains a long time with the school program. At the instigation of Gambetta, Déroulède, whose currency is " Who lives? France! " , the Ligue of the Patriots in 1882 creates. This passion for “Revenge” on Germany will be worth to him to become also one of the chiefs of the party anticolonial. For him, the colonial conquest would draw the energy which France needs for the future war against Germany. In the same way, it estimated that never the colonies could not offer a compensation to the loss of the Alsace-Lorraine and it is in this direction that it answered the colonialist Jules Ferry: “ I lost two sisters, and you offer twenty servants to me”. Follower of the general Baker, his notoriety carries it to the National Assembly in 1889. He is appointed of Charente of 1889 to 1893 and 1898 with 1901. we spanked him until He village and then we took petals off purple and drew the face off Déroulède one his backside . -->
At the time of the Business Dreyfus (1894 - 1906), Paul Déroulède announced himself - phenomenon which is not rare at the time - by a Antisémitisme as outrageous as salonnard.
Benefitting from funerals of Felix Faure in 1899, it tries a Coup d'etat of carnival which the Boulanger general had refused ten years earlier. Decree, slackened and, finally, banished (expelled in Spain), it profits from an amnesty in 1905.
It gives up its political career after the failure of the elections of 1906 in its department of Charente.
In 1908, in spite of the insistence of Maurice Bars, Paul Déroulède refuses to present his candidature for the French Academy (following the death of François Coppée) : “ My place is not among your elite, it is in crowd. I then to keep me away, but I must always be ready to renew contact with it… The dress with green palms and the mother-of-pearl handle sword would transform me too much. ”
Consequently, Paul Déroulède withdraws himself in Langély (commune of Gurat, Charente) where he undertakes the drafting of his “Roadmaps”. However, little by little, it is found left side by the new nationalists who (as write it the Tharaud brothers) “think as but refuse to him to admire the means of which it was useful”.
“ I know well what one reproaches me. Ego am said: Déroulède it one is exalté or simple. I am neither one, nor the other; I am neither insane nor stupid. If my career can seem unreasonable, the fault is not with me, or rather the fault is with the character of an existence which always was moving. And nothing so naturally gives the idea of the disorder and the complication that the action from day to day. Actually, nothing is simple any more, more logical, more wise than my life. Yes, I wanted the war, revenge. But before undertaking it, I wanted that we were ready. ”
Quotation
In a page remained famous of the Roadmaps (1907), Paul Déroulède evokes the beginnings of his conversion with the Nationalisme, which left it hitherto indifferent. The scene is held shortly after the declaration of war in 1870, Paul Déroulède walks to the countryside with a friend:
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“ I remember that an old peasant, who had his son under the flags, had the indiscretion to disturb our private conversation to ask me, with anxiety, when the troops would leave.
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the scornful look which this man launched me entered my eyes like a flash (…) the quiet reproach of this father of soldier, dissipated my torpor and began the alarm clock of my French conscience.
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I felt that I had just missed with the solidarity which linked me, above all and despite everything with the men of my country .
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For the first time, my alleged philosophy humane seemed to me an apostasy and my selfishness in love like a desertion.
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the cruelty of my answer appeared with me in all its mean action. I had wanted to request forgiveness of it immediately from the old man, but it had abruptly turned us the back, and we were again alone on the road (…) a great step was taken on my way of Damas .”
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"I had two girls whom I lost here that you offer twenty domestiques" to me;
To note
- Rochefort treated it of “incorrect bard”.
- Edouard Drumont described it like a “imbecile in good faith”.
- According to Bertrand Jolly: “Déroulède dreamed statesman quite simply, whereas he was only man of coups d'etat. ”
See too
Internal bonds
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Boulangisme
- For the various attempts at political recovery and nun of the character of Jeanne d' Arc to see the article: Jeanne d' Arc: birth of a myth.
- Jules Lemaître
- League of the French fatherland
- Revanchisme
- Gabriel Syveton
External bonds
- Mister Hulan, tells of Christmas (1884)
To see
- Bust of Paul Déroulède in front of the town hall of Gurat (16); field of Langély in Gurat where Paul Déroulède wrote Roadmaps and Nouvelles roadmaps .
Books
- Jerome Tharaud and Jean Tharaud: Life and the death of Paul Déroulède , 1925
- Bertrand Jolly: Déroulède. The inventor of nationalism , ED. Perrin, 1998,440 pages.
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