After Waterloo: Reminiscences Of European Travel 1815-1819, By Major W. E Frye













































































































 -  The government here have shewn a great disposition to second
the views of the Allied Powers in persecuting those Frenchmen - Page 152
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The Government Here Have Shewn A Great Disposition To Second The Views Of The Allied Powers In Persecuting Those Frenchmen Who Have Been Proscribed By The Bourbon Government.

This state lost its independence during the revolutionary wars and was incorporated with France.

As the citizens were suspected of being more favourable to the English than suited the policy of the French government of that time, they were viewed with a jealous eye and I believe some individuals were harshly treated; but what most vexed and displeased them was the enforcement of the conscription among them, for the Genevois do not like compulsion; they are besides more pacific than war-like and tho' like the Dutch they have displayed great valour where their interest is at stake, yet Mercury is a deity far more in veneration among them than Bellona. The natural talent of this people is great, and it has been favoured and developed by the freedom of their institutions; and this republic has produced too many eminent men for that talent to be called in question; they seem to have decided talents and dispositions for financial operations. A Genevois has the aptitude of great application united to a very discerning, natural genius, and he generally succeeds in everything he undertakes. Literature is much cultivated here, and the females, who are in general handsome and graceful, excel not only in the various feminine accomplishments, such as music, dancing and drawing, but they carry their researches into the higher branches of litterature and science and acquire with great facility foreign languages.

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