ABSTRACT
Ever since the Swiss contingents moved out as the French approached Bern on March 4, 1798, because Bern was as good as lost, part of modern Switzerland has had a bad conscience about old Bern and hates it all the more. Here there are no parties, but only people who put up a defence and people who did not. All constitutional talk is nothing compared to one spark of that temperament which at least defends itself against bands of robbers.
