Felix Raphael
Antoine ROUGIER, (born in Lyon on Saturday 16-6-1877 – died on Wednesday 7-12-1927 in Lausanne) was a first cousin of Maurice Rougier (Grandfather), son of a bitch Félix Rougier, the brother of Maurice's father,
General Louis Rougier.
" In the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy, on the 16th of June, at three o'clock in the evening, by our mayor, an officer of the Civil State of the fifth arrondissement of Lyon, appeared Sir Charles Félix Rougier, forty-three years old, merchant, rue St Paul, no. 15, who introduced us to a male child, born today at eight o'clock in the morning, in the marital home, mentioned above, declaring him and Thérèse Morcel, forty-two years, without any particular profession, his wife, and to whom he gave the names of Felix Raphael Antoine. Witnesses: Luc Guillet-Brossette, 49, merchant Bellecour Square, 30, and François Lyandrat, 46, Distillator, St. Paul Street, 15th. Reading done, the father of the child and the witnesses signed with us."
Antoine Rougier
Having lost his mother at the age of 11, he was raised by Valentine Rougier and the servant Elise. He studied Law in Lyon (doctor in law in 1903), and was a professor in Paris (1908) and Caen (1910), before going to Lausanne in 1912 where he was rector of the Faculty of Law of Lausanne (Switzerland).
He was a passionate about esotericism. Mystical books (see website).
He married Marthe Sigust, a family of both Lyon and Marseilles, in Marseille on 28 April 1906.
Memories of Paulette FAZEMBAT, from her mother Lucie ROUGIER
(a first cousin of Antoine Rougier):
"Anthony ROUGIER, a law associate, professor and dean of the Faculty of Law of Lausanne, was interested in occult sciences and had magnetic gifts: having made "magnetic passes" in Valentine's back, her sister fell into d-hypnosis.
Another story: he made Lucie ROUGIER's headache disappear as if by enchantment, during a family meal.
He had inherited from a friend a sacred book from India. This friend had died mysteriously and later, Antoine gradually died and died in the same way (probably poisoned)"
His death was reported in the Swiss newspapers of the time
Extract from the brochure published in Lausanne after his death:
"Antoine Rougier was born in Lyon on 16 June 1877; he was a doubly doctor of law at the Faculty of Law of Lyon: once in 1902, with mention of legal sciences; the other time in 1903, with mention of political and economic sciences.
He was first a lawyer at the Court of Appeal in Lyon in 1901; from 1908 to 1910 he was a lecturer at the Faculty of Law at the University of Caen, for the teaching of constitutional law and administrative law, and from 1910 to 1912 at the Faculty of Law at the University of Aix-Marseille, for administrative law, comparative constitutional law and for a course on the Swiss Constitution.
On 30 January 1912 he was called to the University of Lausanne, with his first appointment on 1 April, as an extraordinary professor of general administrative law and French civil law, which was added to the diplomatic and consular law on 15 October 1919.
He was Dean of the Faculty of Law in Lausanne from 1922 to 1926 and was promoted to the Ordinariate on 7 September 1926. After a few months of illness, he died in Lausanne on 7 December 1927."
brochure of the University of Lausanne
extract from a local newspaper in Lausanne
The speeches delivered on December 9, 1927 after the death of Antoine Rougier:
Speech by Professor G. Chamorel, President of the University
Speech by Professor G. Guisan, Dean of Law
Address by Professor P. Sirven, Vice-President of the Council of the School of Social Sciences and Politics
Speech by Mr. L. Hegg, President of the Association of Friends of Social Sciences
Words spoken at the cemetery of Saint Cyr at the Golden Mount, by Iz Professor Sirven.
extract from the Lausanne Opinion Sheet
extract from "The Swiss Homeland"