Paroles de la tribune 1870-1914 Un âge d'or de l'éloquence ?

The Third Republic incarnated, at least until the Great War, a golden age for parliamentary eloquence. This article analyses the characteristics of this privileged moment of oratory expertise which was at once inscribed in the ­continuity of the deliberative heritage resulting from the French Revolution, but which also adapted itself to the ­coming of parliamentary democracy, and the modernity of a renewed political society.