Jean Daniel Abraham Davel , (major Davel), (October 20th 1670, with Morrens - April 24th 1723, Vidy) is a Soldat and Patriote of Vaud.

Abraham Davel, after studies with Lausanne, becomes notary, then police chief land-surveyor. In 1692, it begins its military career with the service of the prince Eugene of Savoy then of John Churchill. It takes part in the sides of Bernese with the Second war of Villmergen of 1712, and after the victory of Protestant alliance it receives a revenue and is established in the country of Vaud where it takes again a legal load. In 1717, it is named by the Bernese ones with the head of the commander of the militia of Vaud of the district of Lavaux.

Vis-a-vis resistance of Vaud to the introduction of the Consensus Helveticus, Davel feels called by God to release his fatherland of the capacity of Bern. The March 31st 1723, it enters Lausanne accompanied by 500 to 600 not armed men, at the moment when the Baillif S Bernese are absent. There, it gathers the municipal council, and a proclamation presents to him, where a quantity of defects and abuses are reproached the government of Bern. It then makes public its plan aiming to the autonomy of the country of Vaud. The municipal council submits however an immediate report/ratio in Bern on the incident, and Davel is stopped on April 1st. This one will maintain even under the Torture that its company to him was suggested directly by God and that it does not have an accomplice. He is condemned by the court (lausannois) of the middle-class man and citizens to died and decapitated on April 24th to Vidy.

Today, the Section Of Vaud of the Swiss Company of the Students of Zofingue commemorates every April 24th the sacrifice of Major Davel by a walk recalling its course the same day of 1723, on the basis of the Château Saint-Mayor of Lausanne and driving to the monument of Vidy, place where it was carried out.

See too

External bonds

• Jean Daniel Abraham Davel on the Historical Dictionary of Switzerland