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unusual facts about Swiss French



Supper

The term is derived from the French souper, which is still used for this meal in Canadian French, Swiss French, and sometimes in Belgian French.


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Dutch-Paris

Jean Weidner was born to Dutch parents in the vicinity of the Swiss-French border at Collonges-sous-Salève - a place in the French department of Haute-Savoie.

Grunerite

It was discovered in 1853 and named after Emmanuel-Louis Gruner (1809–1893), a Swiss-French chemist who first analysed it.

Sberna

This Pre-Roman dialect (the Swiss Rhaetian or Raetia) is one of four official languages of Switzerland by the Swiss German, Swiss Italian and Swiss French.

Switzerland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2011

SRG SSR compiled the list of candidates for the national selection final with the Swiss radio broadcaster DRS 3 and the Swiss French and Italian-language television networks TSR and RSI.

Thomas Helbling

Although there had been several rows tied language representation in the Federal Chancellery during the appointment of his predecessors - Swiss French politicians having complained that the chancellery was in purely Swiss-German hands after the nomination of both Corina Casanova and Oswald Sigg.

Uwe Siemon-Netto

From 1973 to 1986, Siemon-Netto served as Managing Editor for Hamburger Morgenpost, taught journalism at Hamburg's Journalistenschule Henri Nannen, worked as a freelance correspondent for German, Swiss, French and U.S. publications, and as a media consultant overseeing a variety of design and management tasks at publications in Germany and the United States.