_Droit d'asile_--Pfyffer--Carlo Borromeo, Archbishop of Milan--Borromean League--Protestants driven from Locarno--Switzerland an asylum for religious refugees--Effect of Swiss Reformation on England--Revival of learning--Escalade of Geneva. XXVI. THE ARISTOCRATIC PERIOD 303-314 Thirty Years' War--Graubünden and its difficulties--Massacre in Valtellina--Rohan--Jenatsch--Peasants' Revolt--Treaty with France. XXVII. POLITICAL MATTERS IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY 315-323 Aristocracy and plebeians--French League--Massacre at Greifensee--Davel's plot--Bern--Its three castes--Constitutional struggles in Geneva--Affray in Neuchâtel. XXVIII. SWITZERLAND AND THE RENAISSANCE: INFLUENCE OF VOLTAIRE AND ROUSSEAU 324-342 Voltaire--Residence at Ferney--No special influence on Geneva--Rousseau--Madame de Staël--Swiss savants--Zurich a Poets' Corner--Breitinger, Bodmer, Haller, Klopstock, &c.--Pestalozzi--Lavater--The Helvetic Society. XXIX. THE FRENCH REVOLUTION AND SWITZERLAND 343-359 Swiss Guards massacred in Paris--Insurrection of Stäfa--Treaty of Campo Formio--The Paris Helvetic Club--The "Lemanic Republic"--Surrender of Bern--Helvetic Republic proclaimed--Opposition by Schwyz, Stanz, &c. XXX. THE "ONE AND UNDIVIDED HELVETIC REPUBLIC" 357-368 A levy ordered by France--Franco-Helvetic alliance--Austrian occupation--Russian occupation--Battle of Zurich--Suwarow's extraordinary marches--Heavy French requisitions--Rengger and Stapfer,--Centralists and Federalists--Napoleon as mediator. XXXI. THE MEDIATION ACT AND NAPOLEON 369-381 Conference in Paris on Swiss matters--Mediation Act signed--The Bockenkrieg--Six new cantons formed--Material and intellectual progress--Extinction of Diet--The "Long Diet"--Congress of Vienna--Completion of twenty-two cantons. XXXII. SWITZERLAND UNDER THE CONSTITUTION OF 1815-48 382-394 Dissatisfaction with results of Vienna Congress--The French revolution of 1830--The "Day of Uster"--The Siebner Concordat--Catholic League--Progress of education--Political refugees in Switzerland--Louis Philippe--Louis Napoleon--Disturbances in Zurich by the Anti-Nationalists--The Sonderbund War. XXXIII. UNDER THE CONSTITUTION OF 1848 395-407 New Federal Constitution--Federal Assembly--Federal Council--Federal Tribunal--Powers of the individual cantons--Military service--Neuchâtel troubles--Federal Pact amended--The Initiative--The Referendum. XXXIV. INDUSTRY, COMMERCE, RAILWAYS, EDUCATION. THE "RIGHT OF ASYLUM" 408-421