What are the "factious" denounced by Emmanuel Macron?

While the mobilization against the pension reform and the use of 49-3 by the government continues, the President of the Republic came to defend the “necessity” of his reform on TF1 and France 2, this Wednesday March 22, 2023. During the television interview, he said about the violence observed during the demonstrations and those carried out against certain elected officials:

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Comparing such acts to the storming of the Capitol by supporters of Donald Trump in January 2016, in the United States, as well as the invasion of the Brazilian Parliament by opponents of the election of Lula, in January 2023, that did Emmanuel Macron mean?

shake the power

Borrowed from the Latin "factio" ("way of doing; group of people who act together, party"), referring to the competing troupes which, during Roman antiquity, faced each other in circus games, the word "faction" was born in the fourteenth century.

It is then used to speak of a seditious party or group of people in a state, a society.

Then, from the 17th century, it also designates the function of an armed soldier who watches the surroundings of a post, as can be read in the

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The adjective “factieux”, meanwhile, made its appearance in the French language in the 15th century, under the meaning of

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Derived from the Latin "factiosus" ("affiliated to a political coterie"), but also from "factio", it designates those who seek to cause trouble to shake power.

By extension, it also qualifies people endowed with a subversive character.

Then synonymous with “rebel”, the word was used in 1837 by Honoré de Balzac, who wrote:

As for Emmanuel Macron, saying

means that the government cannot tolerate groups and people who seek to cause trouble to undermine power.