GENEVA

(Fr. Geneve). (1) Canton, Switzerland (46° 15/ 9, OF N70. Be watchm: and jewelry. Area, 108 sq. m.; pop. 1920, 171,000. (2) Tn, Switzerland (46° 12’ N., 6° 9’ 11.), cap. of above Canton, at §. W. end of Lake Geneva, overlooked by Jura and Alps, Rh6ne, i uing from lake, flows through city under handsome bridges. Geneva is a great commercial, industrial, and educational center and favorite resort of foreigners; it has striking modern buildings, broad quays, and fine boulevards. Among the few older buildings of interest are the Cathedral of St. Pierre (12th and 13th centuries), Chapel of the Maccabees (15th cent.), town hall (15th cent.), arsenal containing historical museum; old tower (c, 1219) on the Ile in Rhéne, Notable modern features are univ. (founded as academy in 1559 by Calvin; became univ. in toire de Musique, Victoria Hall (concert hall), Theatre, Musée de Fol (fine collection of antiquities), Musée Rath art collection), Musée des Arts 6coratifs, statue to Duke of Brunswick who left his fortune to Geneva) ou eau Island, houses of Calvin an Rou eau, Quai du Mont Blanc with splendid view of Mont Blanc, Grand Quai du Lac, ete.; chief industries aro watch making, jewelry, diamond cutting enameling, musical boxes, scientific instruments, and cutlery, Geneva first appears in Orsar'’s Guivic War; held b urgundians and Franks, +h and 6t centuries; part of Ger. HWinoire (11th cent.); to gwi republic founded in 1512, allied cantons in 1584; long resistance to house of Savoy ended succe fully in 1603; annexed to France, 1798; admitted into Swi Confederation in 1815. It is the headquarters of the League of Nations, In 1907, popular vote decreed separation of Church and State, Geneva figured very prominently in the Reformation; Farel, famous Prot. preacher, settled there in 1533, Calvin in 1536, The same year Geneva finally’ espoused Prot. faith; Farel and Calvin were exiled in 1538; latter, recalled in 1541, was for the rest of his life the stern and severe ruler of Geneva, even sending Gruet, 1547, and Servetus, 1553, to the stake. Pop. 1920, 135,059.