Fribourg, contes courants

« Il était une fois une vieille femme, vérolée par l’âge, qui vivait seule dans une masure délabrée à l’orée du village. Un jour on la vit arriver au bal de la Saint-Martin. Person...

Debate over the origins of the Burgundian Wars now recognizes that the imperial cities of Alsace alongside Bern, Fribourg, and Solothurn, encouraged by Emperor Frederick III’s decl...

In 1508 a Savoy official Jean Dufour produced a forged will purporting to have been drawn up by Duke Charles I in 1489, which assigned staggering sums to Bern and Fribourg as a rew...

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...

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 ...

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...

Les Lumières n’ont-elles pas vigoureusement remis en question l’autorité de l’Église catholique ? Le clergé n’a-t-il pas été l’un des principaux pourfendeurs de la « philosophie du...