Pierre-Suzanne-Augustin Cochin

Photo by Charles Reutlinger (circa 1860)

Pierre-Suzanne-Augustin Cochin (12 December 1823 – 13 March 1872), was a French politician and writer with an interest in social and economic issues.

Biography

Cochin was born in Paris. He was associated with Charles de Montalembert and the liberal branch of the Catholic Church in France and was elected mayor of the tenth arrondissement in Paris in 1853. A staunch opponent of slavery and advocate for the Union cause during the American Civil War, he was knighted by Pope Pius IX in 1862 for (in the words of Catholic journalist Orestes Brownson) his "admirable work on the Abolition of Slavery."

He was the father of the Catholic politician Denys Cochin and the grandfather of the historian Augustin Cochin.

Works

• Mettray en 1846 (1847)
• Essai sur la vie, les méthodes d'instruction et d'éducation, et les établissements de Pestalozzi (1848)
• Lettre sur l'état du paupérisme en Angleterre (1854)
• Progrès de la science et de l'industrie au point de vue chrétien (1854)
• L'Abolition de l'esclavage (1861)
• Condition des ouvriers français (1862)
• Rome, les martyrs du Japon et les évêques du XIXe siècle (1862)
• Quelques mots sur la vie de Jésus de Renan (1863)
• Paris, sa population, son industrie (1864)
• La Manufacture des glaces de Saint-Gobain de 1665 à 1865 (1865)
• Abraham Lincoln (1869)
• La Ville de Paris et le Corps législatif (1869)
• Paris et la France (1870)
• Le Comte de Montalembert (1870)
• La Question Italienne et l'Opinion Catholique en France (1880)
• Études Sociales et Économiques (1880)
• Les Espérances chrétiennes (1893)

External links

• Works by Augustin Cochin at Hathi Trust

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