Charles-Olivier Hucher
Charles-Olivier Hucher is a French politician, born on December 26th, 1847 with Fountain-Bonneleau (Oise) and deceased on January 19th, 1921 in Paris.
Landowner and coal merchant, Olivier Hucher was president of the Bankruptcy court of Beauvais, and engaged in policy in the years 1880.
City council man of 1884 to 1888, it was selected as leader of the conservatives and moderated republicans, then in the opposition local elections, for the elections of 1896.
Elected official triumphantly (2088 votes against 1711 with the radical list) mayor of Beauvais in 1896, re-elected until 1908, it follows a policy of reconciliation of Beauvaisiens, strongly divided, like much French, between catholics and anticlericals. He makes return the local clergy to the traditional festivals (in particular that of the attack), but could not make large-thing when the new Bishop, Mgr Fibula, were rejected by the local preserving mediums, because suspect of republican sympathies. He could, however, make apply with moderation the Law of separation of the Church and the State, which created many clashes elsewhere in France.
The popularity of Olivier Hucher, very strong at the beginning of its mandates, was degraded then, in particular because the tax pause which it had promised, and that it implemented, limited considerably the capacities of intervention of the municipality, and which the city was inserted in a certain opposition to progress.
Candidate with legislative in 1897 (by-election), 1898 and 1902, it was regularly beaten by the radical Theodore Baudon.
The push of the left in the city was concretized in 1908. The preserving and moderate list was beaten by that of Doctor Magnier, and, in spite of a variation in rather weak voice (a hundred voice on more than 4.000 expressed), only Olivier Hucher saved his seat, the 26 other city council men belonging by the new radical majority.
Paradoxically, Olivier Hucher took his revenge at the time of the legislative ones of 1910. where, benefitting from the socialist push which divided the left, he managed to charm his seat with the Baudon radical, but could not reconquer the town hall of Beauvais in 1912, and lost its seat of deputy in 1914.
In 1919, it benefitted from thorough on the right to return to the Palate-Bourbon, where it sat within the group of the democratic republican Entente. He died in the course of mandate.