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Henri ROUGIER, 1842-1896
Uncle of Maurice ROUGIER
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Henri Auguste Abel ROUGIER, born in Champagnole on 9-3-1842 – died on 2-5-1896. Raised at the municipal school of St Claude, at 14 he was employed at cheesemaker Gros, he was accountant at St Claude at the brewer ERB (in 1865), then a few years after employed at Devaux, distiller and wine dealer.

As a father of two children, Henri Auguste Abel was not mobilized in 1870.
In 1875 he was called by his brother Felix in Lyon, first at the brewer Gallet, then worked at Noilly-Fils in Lyon (his brother Félix was director there).In 1876 he entered as an accountant at the mother house Noilly-Prat in Marseilles until his death in 1896.
When he arrived in Marseilles, he lived successively 20 rue Tholomi (?), then 261 rue Paradis, 1st floor, owner Lieutard from the end of September 1876 to April 1879, then 130 (currently 118) Cours Lieutaud, 2nd floor, owner Morin, from April 1879 to the end of September 1883, then 12 rue Veau, ground floor and 1st floor with a small garden from the end of September 1883 to the end of September 1887, finally at 42 rue des Minimes, 3rd floor from the end of September 1887 to his death on 2 May 1896.
Henri Rougier's grave is in Marseilles.

He married in Saint Claude on 20 Nov 1867 Louise Félicie DUPREZ (one of her aunts, daughter of Jean-Marie-Féréol DUPREZ, master stone tailor and Anne BOURGEOIS; she is the first cousin of Mélanie DUPREZ)

Henri Rougier born in 1842? (or his brother Léon Rougier, born in 1855)
Henri Rougier born in 1842? (or his brother Léon Rougier, born in 1855)
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(details) Louise Rougier, on the occasion of her 52 years of age, the 25-11-1924

They had six children:

          --- 1--- Mauritius Leon Ferdinand Rougier (born Thursday, 24-9-1868 St-Claude - died on 28-7-1901),

Born in the asylum room of St Claude. Maurice attended primary school in Lyon, then in Marseille (July 1876) at "Sardeau", then in high school in October 1879.

In 1885 in Marseille, Maurice was hit by a severe thyroid fever and pleurisy. In November 1885 in Marseilles, he passed his baccalaureate, did Maths Spé and then returned to the Polytechnique school from 1887 to 1889.
Maurice served in Arras from 3 September 1891, where he was promoted to Lieutenant. He went to Grenoble in March 1894 and then to Avignon on 7 September 1894.

He married Blanche DAVID, 20 years old, Wednesday 18 April 1894. Blanche was the daughter of a military principal pharmacist. Born 1874, it is died in August 1895.
In November 1895 Maurice left in Algiers and then in Constantine in September 1897.
Maurice received a decoration on 23 October 1897, just before he met in Batna (December 1897), where he was appointed captain.
He spent 3 years in Sudan as head of the service under his uncle Louis Rougier. He returned on 24/3/1901 to Bordeaux after a prolonged stay with yellow fever (33 months without interruption).

He's remarried with Louise WITAS Friday, 12 April 1901 When he returned from Sudan where they had engaged themselves. Louise was the daughter of a recording receiver in Algiers. He had no children.
Maurice was awarded the Legion of Honor on July 14, 1901 in Paris.

He died prematurely on Sunday 28 July 1901, after 2 days of hospital in Versailles (a cross- swallowed fish ridge, told his nephew and also the other Maurice Rougier, son of Louis Rougier and father of Claude).

He was buried in Versailles (78000) in the military cemetery.
Louise Witas, a month after her husband's death, left for Aix en Provence and returned to Algiers, where she remarried two years later.


          ---2--- Albert ROUGIER, (born on Tuesday 30-8-1870 in St-Claude - died in 1943 in Lyon) normalian, professor of history in Lyon (lycée Ampère). Edouard HERRIOT boasted his intelligence. He married Mathilde Jobart in 1904, employed in the positions, and had 4 children, including Dr. Jean ROUGIER (who was next to Christophe Cordelle, rue d'Alger in Lyon, circa 1977), as well as Germaine ROUGIER, André Rougier and Henri Louis ROUGIER.

Memories of Paulette FAZEMBAT from her mother Lucie ROUGIER :
"Jean ROUGIER, an intern of the Hospitals in Lyon, had married a Russian doctor, whose father had been killed during the Russian Revolution, and whose mother had remarried with a Turk of Constantinople (Istambul today). Jean ROUGIER's wife had gone to Constantinople, on a journey before the 1940 war, was able to return to France because of the circumstances, and became a massager of some pasha and also occupied haras.
Jean later divorced and remarried in Lyon. A daughter was born from her union with the Russian.
His brother Henri ROUGIER, engineer of the Mines of St. Etienne, married a childhood friend of Aix-en-Provence.
Her sister Germaine ROUGIER married a small man."
Here are 3 letters from Jean Rougier to the family: July 28, 1954, on the occasion of the marriage of Claude Rougier and Yves, on May 5, 1956, on the death of Pauline Reig-Rougier (Claudia's grandmother) 7 February 1977 in response to a letter from Granie and speaking of Christophe's next visit.

          ---3--- Cecile Emilie Félicie Rougier (born in St Claude on Sunday, October 4, 1874), died of a whooping cough on Thursday, April 5, 1877.
          ---4---Jeanne Alexandra Irma Rougier, "Aunt Jeanne", born on Sunday, February 10, 1878 in Marseilles.
In October 1893 she obtained her basic patent and in October 1898, her superior patent.
In 1903 in Aix, Provence, she was received at the normal school after having had an exceptional permission to attend the courses in Aix. In July 1904, she entered the normal higher school, while already in 1903 she worked as an assistant professor in Gardanne (Bouches-du-Rhône).
On 4 February 1906, she was awarded a graduate of the École Normale Supérieure.
She arrived in St Egrève at the end of 1906 (38120), where she lived in the place called "les Montonnies" with her sister Félicie.
In June 1916, Jeanne became Director of the Departmental Orphanate of Young Girls of the Isère in Saint Egrève (38120).

Jeanne retired on October 1, 1933 at her request. She died around 1950.
She was very much related to Claude's parents. She was a "holy lay man" and the little office of the "girls' room" in Dampierre came from her.


          ---5----Félicie Marie Antoinette Rougier, (born on Thursday 2-10-1879 in Marseilles, Cours Lieutaud-déditée on 12-12-1930),
In 1894, it was received at the elementary patent.
In 1896 she was a victim of an acute interntion after her father's death.
In October 1898 she was received at the superior patent, as did her sister Jeanne.
In Aix, Provence, she worked as a teacher's assistant at the college of young girls. She prepared the drawing professor in Lyon without success.
She was then a teacher at the Orphanate of Saint Egrève, led by her sister Jeanne.
Félicie was from 1921 to 1922, in Vichy for health problems (diabetes).
She died of diabetes on Friday 12 December 1930 in St Egrève. text read during his obséquesHe reminds us of his life in the service of children.
She was buried in Saint Egrève (38120).

          ---6---Therese Marguerite Albertine Rougier Born in Marseilles, Cours Lieutaud on Saturday 11 February 1882, died on Monday 16 February 1885, from diphtheria, a tracheotomy was tried to save her.


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