Pierre-Suzanne-Augustin Cochin (1823 – 1872) was a French politician and writer with an interest in social and economic issues. He was associated with

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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

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, he was knighted by

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in 1862 for (in the words of Catholic journalist

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) his "admirable work on the Abolition of Slavery."Henry Brownson (ed.), The Works of Orestes A. Brownson, Vol. XVII, No. 3 (Detroit: H.F. Brownson, 1904), 343. He was the father of the Catholic politician Denys Cochin and the grandfather of the historian Augustin Cochin. He was born in

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Works

* ''L'Abolition de l'esclavage'', (1861)

References

1823 births 1872 deaths Politicians from Paris Writers from Paris Liberal Catholicism 19th-century French male writers 19th-century Roman Catholics French Roman Catholic writers {{RC-bio-stub