{"id":69433,"date":"2017-09-06T11:02:15","date_gmt":"2017-09-06T09:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pariszigzag.fr\/?p=69433"},"modified":"2021-12-20T12:37:48","modified_gmt":"2021-12-20T11:37:48","slug":"dou-vient-lexpression-tenir-le-haut-du-pave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pariszigzag.fr\/insolite\/histoire-insolite-paris\/dou-vient-lexpression-tenir-le-haut-du-pave\/","title":{"rendered":"D’o\u00f9 vient l’expression \u00ab\u00a0tenir le haut du pav\u00e9\u00a0\u00bb ?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pour trouver l’origine de l’expression \u00ab tenir le haut du pav\u00e9\u00a0\u00bb<\/em>, c’est dans les rues sombres et \u00e9troites du Paris m\u00e9di\u00e9val<\/a>\u00a0qu’il faut se replonger. \u00c0 cette \u00e9poque, les \u00e9gouts sont encore une impensable utopie et les Parisiens se contentent d’un \u00ab\u00a0tout-\u00e0-la-rue\u00a0\u00bb<\/a> peu hygi\u00e9nique<\/strong> : c’est par la fen\u00eatre, au beau milieu de la rue, que l’on jette ses eaux us\u00e9es.<\/p>\n

Or, au Moyen-\u00c2ge, les rues de Paris sont pav\u00e9es et seulement pourvues d’une rigole centrale <\/strong>dont la\u00a0capacit\u00e9 d’\u00e9coulement vers la Seine<\/a>\u00a0est moindre. Les eaux us\u00e9es y stagnent donc aux c\u00f4t\u00e9s des d\u00e9tritus, restes de nourriture\u00a0et autres excr\u00e9ments jet\u00e9s depuis les immeubles. Fort heureusement, la chauss\u00e9e forme\u00a0un V<\/strong>\u00a0qui remonte vers les fa\u00e7ades\u00a0des immeubles\u00a0et le haut du pav\u00e9 se trouve ainsi un peu plus propre. Les pi\u00e9tons prennent donc\u00a0l’habitude de circuler pr\u00e8s des fa\u00e7ades.<\/p>\n

Sauf que les rues sont\u00a0trop \u00e9troites pour permettre \u00e0 plusieurs passants de se croiser sur\u00a0cette partie sup\u00e9rieure. Et, parce qu’il\u00a0faut bien que quelqu’un se d\u00e9voue, la convenance veut que le\u00a0plus pauvre se mette au milieu<\/strong>. Le plus riche peut ainsi continuer de marcher sur le \u00ab\u00a0haut du pav\u00e9<\/strong> \u00bb sans se salir.\u00a0Si les rues \u00e9troites avec rigole centrale ont presque toutes disparu depuis longtemps (il en reste quelques-unes, comme la ruelle Sourdis),\u00a0l’expression \u00ab tenir le haut du pav\u00e9 \u00bb fait toujours r\u00e9f\u00e9rence au statut social \u00e9lev\u00e9 de quelqu’un.<\/p>\n

\u00c0 lire \u00e9galement :<\/strong> D’o\u00f9 vient l’expression \u00ab\u00a0march\u00e9 aux puces\u00a0\u00bb ?<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Photo de couverture\u00a0:<\/strong><\/span> la ruelle Sourdis dans le 3e arrondissement,
\ncaract\u00e9ristique des rues du Moyen-\u00c2ge<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

L’origine de cette expression est \u00e0 retrouver dans les rues sales et \u00e9troites de Paris au Moyen-\u00c2ge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":69434,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_titles_title":"D'o\u00f9 vient l'expression "tenir le haut du pav\u00e9" ?","_seopress_titles_desc":"L'origine de cette expression est \u00e0 retrouver dans les rues sales et \u00e9troites de Paris au Moyen-\u00c2ge.","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_seopress_news_disabled":"","_seopress_video_disabled":"","_seopress_video":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas_manual":[],"_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable_all":"","_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-histoire-insolite-paris"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pariszigzag.fr\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pariszigzag.fr\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pariszigzag.fr\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pariszigzag.fr\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pariszigzag.fr\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pariszigzag.fr\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pariszigzag.fr\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/69434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pariszigzag.fr\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pariszigzag.fr\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pariszigzag.fr\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}