When Pomona and Severus passed through Bern in the twentieth century, they visited the local "Bear Park," following a recommendation in a travel magazine. There had not been a single person in the park at the time.
Severus bought a camera there. He never said how much it cost, but judging by the price of the hotel suite they had stayed in, she guessed it could not have been cheap.
Aloyes Reding had served in the Spanish army before returning to Switzerland prior to the outbreak of the French Revolution. In 1798, he fought the French army on the ancient battlefield of Morgarten, but victory did not favor him. He was forced to submit to the new regime, yet Reding and his friends never abandoned their efforts to restore the federal system.
Canton of Forest formed a resistance alliance and sent representatives to meet Reding in Canton of Schwyz. They decided to raise an army in Zurich and place it under General Bachmann's command. He had once been a veteran of Louis XVI's Swiss Guard, then served in Sardinia after the French Revolution. At the time, he was a major, and was later promoted to command the legion from Switzerland under British orders. After the Treaty of Amiens, the army was disbanded, and he returned to Switzerland with his comrades.
Madame de Staël's father, Necker, was a renowned banker from Switzerland and Louis XVI's finance minister.
In fact, Switzerland was very wealthy. Ba said Bern was like a mountain of gold. In 1798, Napoleon planned his expedition to Egypt but lacked military funds. Both he and the Directory turned their attention to Switzerland and Rome. That year, the French invaded Switzerland and "carried away" gold bars and coins worth sixteen million Francs, arms and ammunition worth seven million Francs, and