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1800s in Switzerland

  • Helvetic RepublicOn the 5th of March 1798, French troops completely overran Switzerland and the Old Swiss Confederation collapsed. The invasion proceeded largely peacefully…
  • Switzerland in the Napoleonic eraIn 1790, a group of exiled Vaudois and Fribourgers gathered in Paris to form the Helvetian Club. They spread ideas from the French Revolution across western…