Claude Alexis Cochard

Claude Alexis Cochard (born on May 1st 1743 with Vesoul, Haute-Saône - died the October 18th 1815 in the same city) was a French lawyer and politician, who made a political career for the period of the Révolution and the Empire.

Biography

Lawyer in Parliament of Franche-Comté, already implied in the local political life before the Revolution, since he was mayor of Vesoul in 1784 and second alderman in 1789, Claude Alexis Cochard was elected appointed of the Tiers state of the Bailliage of upstream to Vesoul with the General states the April 11th 1789.

It sat in the rows of the majority of the Parliament, and raised in July 1789 an incident, which occupied the Parliament on several occasions. On the report/ratio which had reached him of Vesoul, he denounced “the infernal and incredible treason of Mister de Mesmay, adviser with the Parlement of Besancon”, which, having invited its vassal peasants and its with a festival the July 19th 1789 in its Château of Quincey, close to Vesoul, would have joined together them under an arbor, and would have made jump its guests by means of a mine laid out for this purpose. Three soldiers and two middle-class men had perished, and several had been wounded. Mister de Mesmay had escaped and the peasants had burned his castle. This incident started six panic S in Franche-Comté (riots related so that one called the Great fear thereafter). The Parliament ordered continuations. The July 29th, the marquis of Toulongeon claimed with the platform of the Parliament the suppression of the Parlement of Besancon, which he showed of too many cares in these continuations, and it province of Franche-Comté asked for the suppression of its Parliament.

With the Parliament, Cochard spoke against export about the grains, decided for the abolition of the rights of Mainmorte and presented the June 13rd 1791 a curious report/ratio on the question of knowing if the duke of Orleans were founded in its complaint relating to the dowry of the girl of the Regent, conclusive that this one was legitimate. The Parliament voted the adjournment of the business to the next legislature.

After having exerted the functions of executive police chief to the army of Dumouriez, Cochard became in year VIII assistant of the mayor of Vesoul, and, the same year, on April 1st 1800 ( 11 germinal year VIII ), was named judge with the court of cassation.

Decorated with the Legion of honor the June 14th 1804 ( 25 meadow year XII ), it accepted under the Empire the title and the functions of advising with the Court of appeal. It was made Officer of the Legion of Honor the August 23rd 1814, adopted the Restauration and belonged to the untraceable Chambre, where it was elected the August 22nd 1815 by the department of the Haute-Saône by 118 votes out of 205 voters and 261 registered voters. But it had hardly time to sit there, since it died in Vesoul the October 18th 1815.

Sources

the majority of the contained informations in this article come from the biographical note devoted to Claude Alexis Cochard in the Dictionnaire of the deputies (1789-1889) from Cluseret and Colbert-Chabannais (Volume 2, p. 141), maintaining in the public domain.

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