Ferdinand Rougier

Entrance to Champagnolles
 
Ferdinand Rougier's passport (recto and back), dated 15 March 1852

Details An archived legal document (circa 1853) and visible on Intenet. It confirms and clarifies the testimonies of Paulette Fazembat and Lucie Rougier

Details Genealogical table of cousins Rougier and Duprez still living in the Champagnole region, according to a letter of 11 Sept 1936 from Albert Rougier to Maurice Rougier his first cousin

           Ferdinand ROUGIER was the fifth child and son

            of the Jean (II) ROUGIER, originating in St Maurice de Pionsat (63330, Puy de Dome)established and deceased at Field (Jura)The name of ROUGIER is said to have been the origin of red lands in the Massif Central.

Albert Louis Edmond Rougier (1870-1943) noted: " the name of the Rougiers is found as a hamlet in Auvergne: "les Rougiers". It should be noted that it is a common name on the road maps -the Rougier plateau - on the crystalline and poor plateaux of the Rouergue south of Segalos. Many Rougier in Marseille, but no relatives on this side (Ruggeri of Italy). No Rougier known in Jura other than ours."

              and on the other Mary Therese CUYNET, Field (Jura)who already had 2 children of a first marriage (why not?) and will have 3 others by Jean ROUGIER.
(see marriage contract on 14 January 1828)

Louis Ferdinand ROUGIER, born in 1802 in Champagnole, married in January 1828 with Melanie DUPREZ, He was a stone tailor himself at his wedding, but later he was a coffeemaker-hotelier (Grande Rue à Champagnole) and also a seamstress. He had two sisters: Marie Féréol ROUGIER, known as "Lili" (who had a son without posterity) and Françoise TARDI (born before 1802, who had four children).

Memories of Paulette Fazembat, held by her mother Lucie ROUGIER: "The General's grandfather was a stone-mower, and his father had a coffee shop where the Republicans met (under the Second Empire, Napoleon III)He was at the same time a colporteur to easily disseminate his political opinions. (We'd say today to distribute leaflets!) He was registered with the police as a "republican" (who had been on the barricades in 1848) opposed to the regime. This "republican" had many children, of whom "the general" and the eldest of his children were Felix Rougier.
In 1848, Ferdinand ROUGIER He went to Paris at the time of the Revolution and would have participated in the barricades. Under the Second Empire, without being exiled like other Republicans, he was placed under house arrest in Champagnole and had to ask for permission to move. He even seems to have been removed 3 months in Brittany by administrative decision. 

See "free port pass valid for 1 year" which was given to him on 15 March 1852 by the Prefect of Jura and which authorizes him to go to Quimper, and which shows certain aspects of his exile.
It bears the entries (among others)
"Politically interned",
"issued pursuant to the Decree of 5 March 1852 and the decision of the Minister of General Police of 9 March of the same month",
"Having passed in Chalon on 30 March 1852, the Commissioner of Police",
"Having passed to Autun on 31 March 1852, the Commissioner of Police",
And finally:
"Seen to return to Champagnole, by the decision of the Prince President of the Republic who granted to Sr. Rougier, entire surrender of the internment pronounced against him, Quimper on 23 April 1852, for the Prefect in conscription, the Secretary General delegated".

This document contains the following detailed information:
Age 50, size 1 metre 750 centimetres (sic), catain hair, open forehead, light catain eyebrows, blue eyes, big nose, medium mouth, brown beard, broad chin, full face, colored complexion, 2 warts in the right cheek.

He died in 1861, had 13 children, 12 of them boys, Louis ROUGIER, Claude's grandfather. All seem to have left Champagnole, a very active city today, but where there is no more ROUGIER in the phone directory.

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