Charles Cottu
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Charles Cottu (13 March 1778 – 1849) was French jurist and political journalist. He was counsellor of the Royal Court of Paris, and Secretary-General to the Royal Society of Prisons. In 1820, Cottu was sent to observe the workings of English courts and wrote a report for the French government, On the administration of criminal justice in England and the spirit of the English government (1820). A liberal pamphleteer under Villèle, Cottu become an Ultra in 1828. He was one of the major sources of Alexis de Tocqueville's knowledge of the English legal and administrative system.
Works
- De l'Administration de la justice criminelle en Angleterre et de l'esprit du gouvernement anglais (1820)
- Plan du parti révolutionnaire pour la session de 1829 (1829)
- Des devoirs du roi envers la royauté (1830)
- De la nécessité d'une dictature (1830)
- Théorie générale des droits des peuples et des gouvernemens (1832)
- Guide politique de la jeunesse, ou Traité de l'ordre social (1838)
References
- Rader, D. L. (2013). The Journalists and the July Revolution in France: The Role of the Political Press in the Overthrow of the Bourbon Restoration, 1827–1830. Dordrecht: Springer.
