Les présidences d’âge de l’Assemblée nationale ou 130 ans d’allocutions

The summary of the sitting of the Chamber on 20 January 1881 indicates, for the first time, the “Allocution de M. le président d’âge”. Like all parliamentary rites and words, this allocution becomes significant when it is examined. Between political liturgies which exalt unity and those which, on the contrary, display confrontations, these allocutions ask if the parliamentary world is pacified or de-pacified.