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The town of Solothurn, also the name of the canton, was the seat of the embassy of the French kingdom from 1530 to 1792. In the alliance (Eidgenossenschaft) of the thirteen mainly German-speaking Orte and cantons, French was the language of diplomacy and the elite in the western cantons of Bern, Solothurn and (bilingual) Freiburg. … Read more » “The Riviera of Solothurn”