"Its first good work was to save the lives of some of our party in a bad slip, near the summit of the Balmhorn on the Bernese Overland.
"Among the Canadian Alps"
Lawrence J. Burpee
The inhabitants of the district of Vaud, in their struggles against the oppressive rule of the Bernese oligarchy, had offered to the French Government the excuse for interference: and a force invading that land, overpowered the levies of the central cantons.
"The Life of Napoleon I (Volumes, 1 and 2)"
John Holland Rose
Nothing daunted by this rebuff, and, adopting a device which the First Consul had invented for the benefit of Dutch liberty, the Bernese leaders declared that the 167,172 adult voters who had not voted at all must reckon as approving the new order of things.
"The Life of Napoleon I (Volumes, 1 and 2)"
John Holland Rose