La M?re Royaume (1540?-1605?)
At the origin of the famous marmites full of chocolate vegetables sold during the Escalade each December in Geneva is La M ?re Royaume. The Escalade celebrates the events of the night of 11/12 December 1602 when the citizens of Geneva repulsed the attempt by the soldiers of Charles-Emmanuel I, the Duke of Savoy, to seize the city. The story as it is now told states that, from her window above the Passage de la Monnaie (i.e. a street within…
