Cormenin et l’hystérisation de la joute parlementaire sous la monarchie de Juillet

in Savoirs en lien (2022), 1

Under the July Monarchy, parliamentary debate was marked by the sometimes unheard-of verbal violence of the exchanges that Louis de Cormenin, MP and pamphleteer, described in his Livre des orateurs (1836 ... [more ▼]

Under the July Monarchy, parliamentary debate was marked by the sometimes unheard-of verbal violence of the exchanges that Louis de Cormenin, MP and pamphleteer, described in his Livre des orateurs (1836). In the face of this hysterisation of parliamentary debate, did Cormenin plead for moderation? Did he advocate a debate that allowed room for verbal violence against the immobilism of ministerial policy? Or did he call for a middle way? This contribution seeks to answer this question in the light of the Livre des orateurs and the Lettres sur la liste civile. [less ▲]