Gex

It happened in France, in a region called Gex near the Swiss border, across which many residents commute daily to jobs in Geneva.

Gunning down a claim ... Frank Wilson 2007

What is situated on the side of winter belongs to Vaud, on the side of the wind to Gex.

Les Miserables 2008

His estate was a feudal seigniory in the district of Gex, on the very frontier of Switzerland, but in France, though enjoying immunity from French taxation.

Voltaire 2007

It will be permitted to me here to allude to the Socratic love of the reverend father Polycarp, a Carmelite, who was driven away from the small town of Gex in 1771, in which place he taught religion and Latin to about a dozen scholars.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

In the year 1770 the post of temporal father of the order of Capuchins for the district of Gex became vacant.

Voltaire 2007

I also bought 2 video games: Gex and Blazing Dragons.

chsturtle Diary Entry chsturtle 2005

Which brings me back to the other grand social transformation in the Cycle -- from a society regulated by the nobility and the church represented, to my way of thinking, not so much by Louis XIV, important as he is to the plot, as the fictional and far more reactionary de Gex, to one regulated by currency and markets.

My Very First Linkdump... Abigail Nussbaum 2005

Which brings me back to the other grand social transformation in the Cycle -- from a society regulated by the nobility and the church represented, to my way of thinking, not so much by Louis XIV, important as he is to the plot, as the fictional and far more reactionary de Gex, to one regulated by currency and markets.

Archive 2005-09-01 Abigail Nussbaum 2005

Bern was obliged, under pressure from the Spanish power in Italy, to retrocede Gex and Chablais to Savoy.

1564 2001

The intricate problem of the free zones of Upper Savoy and Gex, so important for the defense of Geneva, was left to direct Franco-Swiss negotiations.

1919, April 11 2001