Denys Cochin

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Denys Cochin (1915)

Baron Denys Marie Pierre Augustin Cochin (born September 1, 1851 in Paris , † March 24, 1922 ibid) was a French politician and writer.

Life

Baron and Baroness Cochin

Denys Cochin was born in 1851 as the son of the writer and politician Augustin Cochin . He was a student of the Collège Stanislas and the Lycée Louis-le-Grand and then did his military service in the 8th Cuirassier Regiment from 1870 and became a standard bearer of General Charles Denis Bourbaki . He inherited the title of baron from his uncle Denys-Guillaume Cochin, who died in 1886 .

After the war, Cochin studied humanities and social sciences and law and then worked for a year as an attaché at the embassy in London with Albert de Broglie . After returning to France in 1872, Cochin studied chemistry with Louis Pasteur . He later used his knowledge as a chemist in the First World War to develop new explosives and chemical weapons.

In 1881 he was elected to the city council of the 7th arrondissement of Paris , from 1893 to 1919 he was then deputy for Paris in the French Chamber of Deputies . There who was one of the most important speakers of the Catholic-monarchist right. His most important speech was a reply to the Minister of Education, Eugène Spuller , who in a speech before parliament urged a new spirit among Catholics. Cochin interrupted him and defended the freedom of religious instruction and the doctrine of the faith against the attacks of the governments of Waldeck-Rousseau and Combes .

On February 16, 1911, Cochin was elected to the Académie française .

As a representative of the Union sacrée , he was Finance Minister in the cabinet of Aristide Briand from October 29, 1915 to December 12, 1916 , then State Secretary in the Foreign Ministry and responsible for the blockade of Germany in the First World War in the cabinet of Alexandre Ribot (March 20 to August 1917) . After the dissolution of the Union sacrée, he resigned, mainly because he had been passed over and humiliated several times by Ribot.

Cochin was often an intermediary between the government and the Holy See during his membership in the French government .

An avid art collector, Denys Cochin acquired several Impressionist paintings, including works by Claude Monet . In 1895, Cochin asked Maurice Denis for a mural for his office, which was supposed to reproduce the legend of "Beau Pécopin", which Victor Hugo told in his travelogue "Le Rhin", and the legend of Hubertus von Liège . The seven panels of the mural are now in the Musée Maurice Denis .

From November 1920, Cochin suffered from paralysis and was handcuffed to the house. Even so, he continued to publish books and articles in Le Figaro and Le Gaulois . He died in Paris in March 1922.

family

Denys Cochin was the father of the historian Augustin Cochin .

Works

  • L'Évolution de la vie . Masson, Paris, 1885
  • Le Monde extérieur . Masson, Paris, 1895
  • Contre les barbaren . 1899
  • L'Esprit nouveau . 1900
  • Ententes et ruptures . 1905
  • Quatre Français: Pasteur - Chevreul - Brunetière - Vandal . Hachette, Paris, 1912
  • Descartes . F. Alcan, Paris, 1913
  • Le Dieu allemand . Bloud et Gay, Paris, 1917
  • Les organizations de blocus en France pendant la guerre (1914-1918) . Plon-Nourrit, Paris, 1926

literature

  • Victor Bucaille: Denys Cochin . Bloud et Gay, Paris, 1922

Web links

Commons : Denys Cochin  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jean-Jacques Becker : La France en guerre (1914-1918): La grande mutation . Éditions complexe, Brussels, 1988, p. 112
  2. ^ Michael Hoffmann: Catholicism in the parliamentary game of the republic . In: Order, Family, Fatherland: Perception and Effect of the First World War on parliamentary rights in France in the 1920s . Institute for Contemporary History, Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, Munich, 2008, pp. 70–75
personal data
SURNAME Cochin, Denys
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cochin, Denys Marie Pierre Augustin (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French politician and writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 1, 1851
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH March 24, 1922
Place of death Paris