Genevese

It was then bought by a Genevese collector, who purchased it for his wife.

Third, it might behove the authorities in Geneva and elsewhere around the lake to assess which areas would be inundated if there were another tsunami, and how they might react if there was one—for if a tsunami did happen, the Genevese would have just over an hour to evacuate their city before its centre was obliterated.

Indeed the dress, physiognomy, and manners of old Geneva might make an American Genevese fancy himself at home on the Leman.

Near by, in a house presented by the Genevese after his release from the long imprisonment suffered on their account, dwelt Bonnivard, Byron's immortal "Prisoner of Chillon," and here he suffered from his procession of wives and finally died.

In 1860, when the annexation of Savoy and Nice had led the Genevese to fear French aggression, de la Rive was sent by his fellow-citizens on a special embassy to England, and succeeded in securing a declaration from the English government, which was communicated privately to that of France, that any attack upon Geneva would be regarded as a casus belli.