Hayward Beywood – Page 12 – International Diplomat America

The man who invented the Canton of Geneva – Charles Pictet de Rochement

08/28/2007

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Charles Pictet de Rochement (1755-1824) If the city of Geneva owes its present structure to James Fazy, and the shape of la rade can be attributed to General Dufour, it can be stated that it was Charles Pictet-de-Rochemont who established the outline of the canton of Geneva. He was a statesman and diplomat who defended the status of Geneva and prepared the declaration of Switzerland’s neutrality at the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Charles Pictet was born on 21…

HENRY DUNANT

08/28/2007

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Henry Dunant, the founder of the Red Cross, born in Geneva on 8 May 1828, was the first child of a wealthy, religious, humanitarian and privileged household. (Note that although he was baptised Jean-Henri, the most common way that he wrote his name was “Henry”.) He seemed destined to become a priest, but he was so hopeless at French, mathematics and particularly Latin that this idea had to be abandoned. As a young man, around 1848, Dunant took part…