Denys Cochin

Biography

Wire of the baron Augustin Cochin (1823-1872), Denys Cochin made its studies with the Louis-the-Large college and engaged, at the 19 years age, in 1870, as sergeant to the 8th cuirassier, before becoming carry-flag of the general Charles Denis Bourbaki.

After the war, it was during one year as embassy attach3e to London near the duke of Broglie. Of return in France, in 1872, it undertook studies of chemistry, in the laboratory of Pasteur in particular. Eminent chemist, it will take part, during the First World War, with the development of new explosives and chemical weapons.

Elected official city council man of VIIe district in 1881, it was appointed of Paris of 1893 with 1919. He was one of the principal spokespersons of the catholic party to the Room, defending school freedoms and the religious congregations against the attacks of the governments Waldeck-Rousseau and Combes.

Symbolizing the rallying of the catholics to the “Sacred union”, he was minister of state in the cabinet Briand (October 29th, 1915 - December 12th, 1916), then under-secretary of State to the Foreign affairs, in charge of the question of the German blockade, in the cabinet Ribot (March 20th - August 1917) of which he resigned by noting the rupture of the “Sacred union”.

He left several works of which: Evolution of the life (1885, crowned by the French Academy), Le Monde outside (1895), Against the barbarians (1899), the new Spirit (1900), Agreements and ruptures (1905). He was elected with the French Academy on February 16th, 1911.

Art lover, Denys Cochin buys in Durand-Ruel of the impressionist tables, in particular of Claude Monet. In 1895, Denys Cochin orders from Maurice Denis an overall decoration for its office on a subject drawn from the legend of the Pécopin Beautiful, told by Victor Hugo in the Rhine , and of the legend of Saint Hubert. The choice of these subjects illustrates its passion for the hunting, which it practices in forest of Fontainebleau, at the beginning of its property of Beauvoir (Seine-et-Marne). The seven panels of this decoration are preserved at the Musée Maurice Denis.

Denys Cochin is the father of the historian Augustin Cochin (1876-1916).

External bond

Biographical note of the French Academy

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