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3 Suisses. 3 Suisses is a French mail order and e-commerce company, with headquarters in Villeneuve-d'Ascq. It is the biggest of the 16 e-commerce brands of Groupe 3SI [ fr; de]. Everett Hutt is the current CEO as of 2022. Since 1981, Otto GmbH owned a 51% share in the company and has been its only shareholder since January 2014.
Geneva. / 46.20167°N 6.14694°E / 46.20167; 6.14694. Geneva ( / dʒəˈniːvə / jə-NEE-və, [ 5] Arpitan: [dzəˈnɛva] ⓘ; French: Genève [ʒənɛv] ⓘ) [ note 1] is the second-most populous city in Switzerland (after Zürich) and the most populous of the French-speaking Romandy. Situated in the southwest of the country, where ...
In the heyday of the 18th century, many personalities visited the French ambassadors in Solothurn. Among the most famous were Voltaire and Giacomo Casanova, who visited Ambassador Anne-Théodore Chevignard, Chevalier de Chavigny, Comte de Toulongeon et Baron d'Uchon, in 1756 and 1758 (Voltaire) and in May and June 1760 respectively (Casanova).
Lake Geneva. Website. www .cgn .ch /fr /. The Compagnie générale de navigation sur le Lac Léman or Lake Geneva General Navigation Company (commonly abbreviated to CGN) is a public Swiss company operating ships on Lake Geneva connecting towns in both France and Switzerland including Geneva, Vevey, Montreux, Évian-les-Bains, and Lausanne .
The line was opened on 5 May 1900, a 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 + 3 ⁄ 8 in)-gauge cog-wheel railway using the Abt rack system. It was the first such line in the region. The line was built by the Chemin de fer Aigle–Leysin.
The Saint-Gingolph–Saint-Maurice railway is a single-track railway in Switzerland. It was opened on 14 July 1859 by the Ligne d’Italie. It connects Le Bouveret on Lake Geneva with Saint-Maurice. The line to the French–Swiss border near Saint-Gingolph was opened together with its continuation towards Évian-les-Bains on 1 June 1886.
Diplomatic relations between France and Switzerland have traditionally been close, through important economic and cultural exchanges. Switzerland and France (which is part of the European Union ), share about 600 km of border (prompting strong cross-border cooperation) and a language ( French is one of Switzerland's four official languages).
Romandy (French: Romandie or Suisse romande; Arpitan: Romandia) [note 1] is the French-speaking historical and cultural region part of Switzerland.In 2020, about 2 million people, or 22.8% of the Swiss population, lived in Romandy. [1]