Abstract
The Prince, is a sulphurous work published in 1513. It is condemned by every authors except Jean-Jacques Rousseau who is defended it modestly. This text is deeply rooted in political crises which take place in Firenze at the turn of the XVe and XVIe century. As a result the redaction of the treaty is justified in a way, by the wish of Machiavel to be employed by the Medicis family and to take back a function in the public affairs.
But it would be widely reducing to make of the Prince a simple work of flattery. It is also to underline another issue. Politics is thought in time of crisis. The analyses of the Prince are focused on the problem of government and the hereditary of government.
