Helvetic Republic

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the Helvetic Republic

  1. (historical) A short-lived sister republic of revolutionary France that existed between 1798 and 1803, encompassing most of present-day Switzerland, excluding the cantons of Geneva, Neuchâtel, and parts of Basel.
    • 2015, Jonathan Steinberg, Why Switzerland?, third edition, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 9:
      The Helvetic Republic, as the Swiss version was called, introduced the latest achievements of the French Revolution: equality before the law, uniformity of weights and measures, and a uniform code of justice. It liberated large tracts of subject territory in Ticino, Vaud, Aargau and Thurgau and raised former subjects to the dignity of citizens.

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