Augustin Cochin (historian)

Born in Paris, Cochin was the son of Denys Cochin, a Parisian deputy in the National Assembly with ties to the Vatican, and the grandson of Augustin Cochin, a French politician and writer. His Catholic upbringing helped him to remain detached from the French Revolution and study it historically in a new light. Cochin studied the Revolution from a sociological perspective, cultivated from his interest in the work of Émile Durkheim, and he sought to look at the revolution from a social perspective. François Furet believed that Cochin's work worked towards an analysis of two objectives: “a sociology of the production and role of democratic ideology, and a sociology of political manipulation and machines.” Cochin was drafted into service in World War I in 1914, and he was wounded four times in service before being killed on 8 July 1916 at Maricourt, Somme. His sometime collaborator, Charles Charpentier, worked with Cochin's family towards posthumous publication of his works. ==See also==

• La Crise de l’Histoire Révolutionnaire: Taine et M. Aulard, Honoré Champion, 1909. • Le Capitaine Augustin Cochin. Quelques Lettres de Guerre, (Préface de Paul Bourget), Bloud & Gay, 1917. • Les Sociétés de Pensée et la Démocratie: Études d’Histoire Révolutionnaire, Plon-Nourrit et Cie., 1921. • La Révolution et la Libre Pensée: la Socialisation de la Pensée (1759-1789); la Socialisation de la Personne (1789-1792); la Socialisation des Biens (1793-1794), Plon, 1924. • Les Sociétés de Pensée et la Révolution en Bretagne (1788-1789), Champion, 1925. • Les Actes du Gouvernement Révolutionnaire (23 août 1793 – 27 juillet 1794), 3 Vol., A. Picard et Fils, 1920-1935. • Abstraction Révolutionnaire et Réalisme Catholique, Desclée, de Brouwer & Cie., 1936. • ''L'Esprit du Jacobinisme: une Interprétation Sociologique de la Révolution Française,'' Presses Universitaires de France, 1979. Works in English translation • "The Subversive Influence of the Philosophes and the Sociétés de Pensée." In: William F. Church (ed.), The Influence of the Enlightenment on the French Revolution. Boston: D. C. Heath and Company, 1964, pp. 61–67. • Organizing the Revolution: Selections from Augustin Cochin, Chronicles Press/The Rockford Institute, 2007. ==References==

• • Works by Augustin Cochin, at HathiTrust • La Révolution et la Libre-Pensée (pdf). • Les Sociétés de Pensée et la Démocratie Moderne (pdf).