2023-04-24 17:05:31
The canton of Vaud officially commemorated late Monday afternoon the tercentenary of the death of Major Davel, beheaded on April 24, 1723 for rebelling against the Bernese occupier. The ceremony took place in Cully in the presence of the Council of State and several hundred guests.
In her speech, the president of the Vaudois government, Christelle Luisier, recalled the “boldness” of Major Davel who, at the cost of his life, traced “a furrow” which became a founding symbol for the canton of Vaud.
On the stage that was used last week at Cully Jazz, Christelle Luisier noted that if Major Davel had taken up arms, it was then political and institutional battles that had made it possible to bring democracy to life.
“Our weapons, fortunately, are words, debate, our democratic tools, our ability to hear each other, to understand each other,” she said.
Emphasizing that Davel could not be recovered by any political party or movement, she affirmed that his memory should leave a conviction to the entire population of Vaud, that “commitment to one’s homeland is never in vain.”
David year
In addition to Christelle Luisier and the syndic of Bourg-en-Lavaux Jean-Pierre Haenni, several historians spoke during the ceremony, as well as a high school student, responsible for giving “the look of young people” on Major Davel. Musical interludes and the parade of Vaudois militias also punctuated the event.
Earlier in the day, the Zofingue student society had carried out its traditional annual march between the Château Saint-Maire and Vidy, at the supposed place of the scaffold, to pay homage to one of its icons.
Beyond this official date, Davel is celebrated throughout the year in Vaud. An exhibition, “Davel or the civic vocation”, is dedicated to him at the Archives cantonales vaudoises until the end of August. And after an opera, presented at the beginning of the year in Lausanne, it is a theatrical fiction, “Le Mystère Davel”, which will be shown in Cully between August and September.
Betrayed by the people of Lausanne
Born in 1670 in Morrens then established in Cully, Jean Daniel Abraham Davel is an emblematic figure in the history of Vaud. This experienced notary and soldier had tried, in vain, to lead his compatriots to rebel against the Bernese, then masters of the Pays de Vaud.
On March 31, 1723, Major Davel led an army of 600 soldiers to Lausanne, where he addressed the city authorities. They had pretended to hear his complaints, before denouncing him to Bern and arresting him.
The revolutionary had been tried by a Lausanne court and beheaded on the scaffold at Vidy. Just before his execution, he had pronounced these famous words: “This is the happiest day of my life.” It will then be necessary to wait nearly a century before his memory is rehabilitated.
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