Conseil affair

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The Conseil affair was a political scandal , in which in the 19th century , the Switzerland and France were involved.

prehistory

For fear of revolutions, the July monarchy changed its attitude towards Switzerland around the middle of the 1830s and oriented itself more and more towards the Metternich system . The Conseil affair was symbolic of this change.

The affair

The French ambassador demanded on July 19, 1836 deportation of Auguste Conseil , a refugee who in 1835 on the assassination of Joseph Fieschi against King Louis-Philippe I was involved. Conseil was arrested on August 10, 1836 in Nidau ​​and it turned out that one of his three forged passports had been issued by the French embassy in Bern . Thus, Conseil was sent to Switzerland as a lure by the French police to collect information about the refugees living there. Liberal Switzerland thus had a serious reason to take revenge on France, because France had supported the Jurassic Catholics in the spring and early summer of 1836 and thus made it impossible to implement the Baden articles in the Bernese Jura . The press published the story and the offended France now sent its own troops to the Swiss border and ordered a complete blockade. England stepped in as a mediator and warned Paris to accept the promise of the great powers, namely the independence and neutrality of Switzerland .

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