The Call of Cochin (''Appel de Cochin'') is a famous

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published on December 6, 1978, by former

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, while he was president of the

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(RPR) party and

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. Its name derives from the name of the Parisian hospital (''

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

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

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. This

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text, clearly alluding to then

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and his

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party, criticized the pro-federalist approach of those who sought to expand the power of the

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

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