%0 Journal Article
%T Les attentats contre les forces de l¡¯ordre dans la France du XIXe si¨¨cle Attacks against the police in the 19th Century France
%A Arnaud-Dominique Houte
%J La R¨¦volution Fran£¿aise : Cahiers de l¡¯Institut d¡¯Histoire de la R¨¦volution Fran£¿aise
%D 2012
%I Institut d'Histoire de la R¨¦volution Fran?aise
%X La police et la gendarmerie sont-elles des cibles d¡¯attentats dans la France du XIXe si¨¨cle ? Il est facile de citer d¡¯innombrables attaques dirig¨¦es contre les forces de l¡¯ordre. Mais il est plus difficile de comprendre le sens que rev¨ºtent ces violences. Durant la premi¨¨re moiti¨¦ du XIXe si¨¨cle, il s¡¯agit g¨¦n¨¦ralement de simples r¨¦sistances ¨¤ l¡¯autorit¨¦, souvent compliqu¨¦es de r¨¨glements de comptes. Malgr¨¦ sa sp¨¦cificit¨¦, le cas corse ob¨¦it ¨¤ des logiques voisines. Il faut attendre la fin du si¨¨cle et l¡¯int¨¦gration sociale des forces de l¡¯ordre pour observer de v¨¦ritables attentats qui visent moins le policier lui-m¨ºme que son uniforme, le symbole qu¡¯il r¨¦pr¨¦sente. Mais le sens de ses actes se dissout toujours dans une incertitude quant au v¨¦ritable but de l¡¯agresseur : cible trop ¨¦vidente, l¡¯agent de l¡¯autorit¨¦ ne peut pas ¨ºtre une simple victime d¡¯attentat. Are the French police and Gendarmerie officers particular targets of violence in the 19th century? Many examples of such attacks exist, but it is difficult to intepret their true meaning. During the first half of the 19th century, these tend to reflect a more resistance to authority, often made more complex by gangs¡¯settling scores. Indeed this is similar to the Corsica situation, nonwithstanding its local specificity. Only towards the end of the century, and following the social integration of police and gendarmerie forces, do attacks become less directed towards individual officers than the entity they embody. However the attackers¡¯real motives remain incertain: too obvious a target, a police or a gendarmerie officer cannot be like any other individual victim.
%K attentats
%K police
%K gendarmerie
%K France
%K Corse
%K XIXe si¨¨cle
%K political attacks
%K Corsica
%K 19th Century
%U http://lrf.revues.org/427