Dans un article provocateur, Time Magazine affirme que la reine Victoria aurait \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00ab la plus grande trafiquante de drogue de tous les temps \u00bb. Sous son r\u00e8gne, l\u2019Empire britannique mit en place un vaste commerce d\u2019opium entre l\u2019Inde (colonie britannique) et la Chine, afin de r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrer la balance commerciale fortement d\u00e9ficitaire en raison des importations de th\u00e9 chinois. L\u2019opium, ill\u00e9gal mais tr\u00e8s pris\u00e9 en Chine, devint rapidement un outil strat\u00e9gique pour les Britanniques.<\/p>\n
Face \u00e0 cette invasion toxique, l\u2019empereur Daoguang tenta de r\u00e9sister. Apr\u00e8s la destruction de tonnes d\u2019opium par les autorit\u00e9s chinoises, la reine Victoria d\u00e9clencha la premi\u00e8re guerre de l\u2019opium en 1840. Celle-ci se conclut par le trait\u00e9 de Nankin (1842), qui imposa des concessions majeures \u00e0 la Chine, dont la cession de Hongkong.<\/p>\n
Par ailleurs, Victoria elle-m\u00eame consommait diverses drogues \u00e0 des fins m\u00e9dicales : cannabis liquide, chloroforme, laudanum (opium) et m\u00eame coca\u00efne en gomme \u00e0 m\u00e2cher. Selon l\u2019historien Sam Kelly, ces substances auraient contribu\u00e9 \u00e0 forger l\u2019image d\u2019une reine forte, malgr\u00e9 son inexp\u00e9rience.<\/p>\n
Derri\u00e8re la respectabilit\u00e9 victorienne, une politique imp\u00e9riale fond\u00e9e sur le narcotrafic et la d\u00e9pendance des peuples.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u00a0\u2013Rep\u00e9r\u00e9 dans Le Point cet article \u00ab\u00a0La reine Victoria, plus grande trafiquante de drogue de l\u2019histoire ?\u00a0\u00bb Dans un article provocateur, Time Magazine affirme que la reine Victoria aurait \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00ab la plus grande trafiquante de drogue de tous les temps \u00bb. Sous son r\u00e8gne, l\u2019Empire britannique mit en place un vaste commerce d\u2019opium entre<\/p>","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":77334,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":"","rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_robots":null,"rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":""},"categories":[1780],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-repere"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antilla-martinique.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/antilla-martinique.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/antilla-martinique.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antilla-martinique.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antilla-martinique.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/antilla-martinique.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antilla-martinique.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antilla-martinique.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antilla-martinique.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antilla-martinique.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}