The Call of Cochin is a famous discourse

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 published on December 6, 1978 by Jacques Chirac

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, former Prime Minister of France

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, president of the Rally for the Republic

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 (RPR) party, and mayor of Paris

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Its name derives from the name of the Parisian hospital (Hôpital Cochin

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) in which Chirac was then being treated following from a car accident in the Corrèze

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 département on November 26. Chirac was then also president of the General Council of the département, and one of its deputies to the National Assembly

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.

This eurosceptic

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 text, clearly alluding to then president Valéry Giscard d'Estaing

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 and his Union for French Democracy

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 party, criticized those who sought to expand the power of the European Economic Community

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. Chirac went even as far as to describe them (without naming them openly) as the "party of the foreigners".