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What exactly did Jean Calvin (1509–1564) do for Geneva?

février 18, 2008
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JEAN CALVIN (1509–1564) What exactly did Jean Calvin do for Geneva ? In 1509 Jean Cauvin (as the name was written at that time) was born in the town of Noyon in Picardy, Northern France, into a wealthy family. When he was 12 he was sent to school in Paris with the intention of becoming a...

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Woodrow Wilson

février 18, 2008
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In Geneva, on one side of the lake you have the Quai Gustave Ador and on the other side the Quai Wilson. Most people know that the Quai Wilson is named after Woodrow Wilson, the twenty-eighth President of the United States of America. But did you know that there is link between the naming of...

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