The Call of Cochin (Appel de Cochin) is a famous pamphlet published on December 6, 1978 by Jacques Chirac, former Prime Minister of France, president of the Rally for the Republic party, and mayor of Paris. A pamphlet is an unbound booklet (that is, without a hard cover or binding). ... December 6 is the 340th day (341st on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1978 was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1978 calendar). ...   Jacques René Chirac?, known as Jacques Chirac, (born November 29, 1932 in Paris, France) is a French politician. ... The Prime Minister of France (Premier ministre de la France) is the functional head of the Cabinet of France. ... The Rally for the Republic, also known by its French acronym RPR (Rassemblement pour la République), was a French political party. ... The Eiffel Tower has become a symbol of Paris throughout the world. ...

Its name derives from the name of the Parisian hospital (Hôpital Cochin) in which Chirac was then being treated following from a car accident in the Corrèze 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. Corrèze is a département in the center of France, named after the Corrèze River. ... The départements (or departments) are administrative units of France, roughly analogous to British counties. ... The Palais Bourbon, front The French National Assembly (French: Assemblée nationale) is one of the two houses of the bicameral Parliament of France under the Fifth Republic. ...

This eurosceptic text, clearly alluding to then president Valéry Giscard d'Estaing and his Union for French Democracy party, criticized those who sought to expand the power of the European Economic Community. Chirac went even as far as to describe them (without naming them openly) as the "party of the foreigners". Euroscepticism is scepticism about, or disagreement with, the purposes of the European Union, sometimes coupled with a desire to preserve national sovereignty. ... The President of France, known officially as the President of the Republic (Président de la République in French), is Frances elected Head of State. ... Valéry Marie René Georges Giscard dEstaing (born February 2, 1926 in Koblenz, Germany) is a French politician who was President of the Republic from 1974 until 1981. ... The Union for French Democracy, also known by its French acronym UDF (Union pour la Démocratie Française), is a French center-right political party. ... The European Community (EC), most important of three European Communities, was originally founded on March 25, 1957 by the signing of the Treaty of Rome under the name of European Economic Community. ...

See also

• The text of the Call of Cochin