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GENERAL DUFOUR

02/17/2008

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In February 1781 there was an uprising in Geneva. The revolutionaries demanded liberty, equality and republican government of the city based on the American model. The French King Louis XVI sent troops since he thought the uprising would be a bad example to his own people. The revolutionaries were crushed. In 1782 about 1,000 people fled the city. These were the circumstances that led to Guillaume-Henri, the future General Dufour, being born at the town of Constance on the…

Jean Piaget (1896-1980)

08/29/2007

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In the 1960s a white-haired, plump-cheeked gentleman could be seen riding round Geneva on his old bike puffing his pipe. This was Jean Piaget, now considered to be one of the greatest psychologists of the twentieth century. Throughout his life he opposed chauvinistic clich ?s about the development of the human being and sought to find out exactly how the child constructs knowledge. He was born on 9 August 1896 in Neuch ?tel, Switzerland, where his father was a professor of…