Parler avant d'agir Le discours d'Aristide Briand dans l'élaboration, la discussion, le vote et l'application de la loi de séparation des Églises et de l'État (1903-1911)

“Speak before acting, but speak to act”. This could be the motto which led Aristide Briand, reporter of the law of separation between the Church and State, to ­conceive of firm but balanced legislation. He developed a political discourse founded on the imperative of majority rule, singular rhetoric, and a lexical language with specific vocabulary. This allowed him to bypass numerous of the difficulties associated with the application of this law, voted in nonetheless with a ­comfortable majority.