The Congress of Vienna and neutrality
Vienna, Paris
Key figures: Charles Pictet de Rochemont
Further reading: Congress of Vienna (Wikipedia)
At the Congress of Vienna Europe redrew its borders. Switzerland gained three new cantons, Valais, Neuchâtel and Geneva, bringing the total to twenty-two.
On 20 November 1815, in Paris, the great powers recognised Switzerland's perpetual neutrality and the inviolability of its territory. Since then neutrality has been one of the fundamental features of Swiss foreign policy.
The Congress of Vienna, engraving by Jean Godefroy after Jean-Baptiste Isabey, 1819
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