Myths — the Swiss Lake Dwellers

When I was at school we were taught that early civilizations in Switzerland had built villages on raised wooden platforms standing in shallow water on the lake shores. When I came to live in Switzerland I learned that this was untrue. What a pity ! Where did this rather attractive and romantic idea come from and...

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GENERAL DUFOUR

In February 1781 there was an uprising in Geneva. The revolutionaries demanded liberty, equality and republican government of the city based on the American model. The French King Louis XVI sent troops since he thought the uprising would be a bad example to his own people. The revolutionaries were crushed. In 1782 about 1,000 people...

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