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A Clash with Democracy: Geneva and Jean-Jacques Rousseau
A Clash with Democracy: Geneva and Jean-Jacques Rousseau
This chapter discusses a movement of modern democratic type in Geneva in 1768, which made a positive impression on institutions of government. In the roles played by upper, middle,...
Religion or Politics?
Religion or Politics?
In 1532 Guillaume Farel began Reforming preaching in Geneva. Fribourg’s Catholicism estranged it from Geneva (and Lausanne, where there was evangelically tinged hostility towards t...
The Struggle for Geneva
The Struggle for Geneva
Savoy’s aggression towards Geneva devolved upon the League of the Spoon, a band of Savoyard noblemen. The bishop hoped to shore up his dwindling authority by joining the Burgrecht ...
Savoy Strikes Back
Savoy Strikes Back
Duke Charles’s harassment of Geneva from the 1510s led to the arrest and execution of leading councillors and the formation of a pro-Swiss party, the Eidguenots, led by Besançon Hu...
Faction in Geneva
Faction in Geneva
Geneva was forced to pay Bern substantial military reparations; moreover, it struggled to reclaim the vidomnat. Only in August 1536 was its Burgrecht with Bern renewed. In 1538 it ...