The
Call of Cochin (
Appel de Cochin) is a famous
discourseDiscourse means either "written or spoken communication or debate" or "a formal discussion of debate." The term is often used in semantics and discourse analysis....
published on December 6, 1978 by
Jacques ChiracJacques René Chirac served as the President of France from 17 May 1995 until 16 May 2007. As President he also served as an ex officio Co-Prince of Andorra and Grand Master of the French Légion d'honneur. Chirac was the second-longest serving President of France , behind François Mitterrand...
, former
Prime Minister of FranceThe Prime Minister of France in the Fifth Republic is the functional head of the government and Council of Ministers of France. The head of state in France is the President of the French Republic...
, president of the
Rally for the RepublicThe Rally for the Republic , was a French right-wing political party. Originating from the Union of Democrats for the Republic , it was founded by Jacques Chirac in 1976 and presented itself as the heir of Gaullism...
(RPR) party, and mayor of
ParisParis is the capital of France and the country's most populous city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
.
Its name derives from the name of the Parisian hospital (
Hôpital CochinThe Hôpital Cochin is a famous hospital of public assistance in the rue du Faubourg-Saint-Jacques Paris 14e. It houses the central burn treatment center of the city. The Hôpital Cochin is a section of the Faculté de Médecine Paris-Descartes...
) in which Chirac was then being treated following from a car accident in the
CorrèzeCorrèze is a department in south central France, named after the Corrèze River.-History:Corrèze is one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution on March 4, 1790. It includes part of the former province of Limousin .-Geography:The department is part of the current region...
département on November 26. Chirac was then also president of the General Council of the
département, and one of its deputies to the
National AssemblyThe French National Assembly is the lower house of the bicameral Parliament of France under the Fifth Republic. The other is the Senate ....
.
This
euroscepticEuroSceptic is the 2nd album of British singer Jack Lucien. It shall be released on the 2nd November 2009. .-Track listing:# Saturday [4:10]# Je Suis Un Superstar [4:09]# My Intervention [4:02]...
text, clearly alluding to then president
Valéry Giscard d'EstaingValéry Marie René Georges Giscard d'Estaing is a French centre-right politician who was President of the French Republic from 1974 until 1981...
and his
Union for French DemocracyThe Union for French Democracy was a French centrist political party. It was founded in 1978 as an electoral alliance to support President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing in order to counterbalance the Gaullist preponderance over the right. This name was chosen due to the title of Giscard d'Estaing's...
party, criticized those who sought to expand the power of the
European Economic CommunityThe European Economic Community was an international organisation that existed between 1958 and 1993 which was created to bring about economic integration between Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg and the Netherlands.It was...
.
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The
Call of Cochin (
Appel de Cochin) is a famous
discourseDiscourse means either "written or spoken communication or debate" or "a formal discussion of debate." The term is often used in semantics and discourse analysis....
published on December 6, 1978 by
Jacques ChiracJacques René Chirac served as the President of France from 17 May 1995 until 16 May 2007. As President he also served as an ex officio Co-Prince of Andorra and Grand Master of the French Légion d'honneur. Chirac was the second-longest serving President of France , behind François Mitterrand...
, former
Prime Minister of FranceThe Prime Minister of France in the Fifth Republic is the functional head of the government and Council of Ministers of France. The head of state in France is the President of the French Republic...
, president of the
Rally for the RepublicThe Rally for the Republic , was a French right-wing political party. Originating from the Union of Democrats for the Republic , it was founded by Jacques Chirac in 1976 and presented itself as the heir of Gaullism...
(RPR) party, and mayor of
ParisParis is the capital of France and the country's most populous city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
.
Its name derives from the name of the Parisian hospital (
Hôpital CochinThe Hôpital Cochin is a famous hospital of public assistance in the rue du Faubourg-Saint-Jacques Paris 14e. It houses the central burn treatment center of the city. The Hôpital Cochin is a section of the Faculté de Médecine Paris-Descartes...
) in which Chirac was then being treated following from a car accident in the
CorrèzeCorrèze is a department in south central France, named after the Corrèze River.-History:Corrèze is one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution on March 4, 1790. It includes part of the former province of Limousin .-Geography:The department is part of the current region...
département on November 26. Chirac was then also president of the General Council of the
département, and one of its deputies to the
National AssemblyThe French National Assembly is the lower house of the bicameral Parliament of France under the Fifth Republic. The other is the Senate ....
.
This
euroscepticEuroSceptic is the 2nd album of British singer Jack Lucien. It shall be released on the 2nd November 2009. .-Track listing:# Saturday [4:10]# Je Suis Un Superstar [4:09]# My Intervention [4:02]...
text, clearly alluding to then president
Valéry Giscard d'EstaingValéry Marie René Georges Giscard d'Estaing is a French centre-right politician who was President of the French Republic from 1974 until 1981...
and his
Union for French DemocracyThe Union for French Democracy was a French centrist political party. It was founded in 1978 as an electoral alliance to support President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing in order to counterbalance the Gaullist preponderance over the right. This name was chosen due to the title of Giscard d'Estaing's...
party, criticized those who sought to expand the power of the
European Economic CommunityThe European Economic Community was an international organisation that existed between 1958 and 1993 which was created to bring about economic integration between Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg and the Netherlands.It was...
. Chirac went even as far as to describe them (without naming them openly) as the "party of the foreigners".