The Large Hadron Collider is located in a 17-mile tunnel near the French-Swiss border, and is operated by CERN, the European Organization of Nuclear Research.
James Freyn, the narrator, is 106, a dropped-out philosophiser, reminiscing into Cowley's tape-recorder about a trip he made in his 20s into the interior of a god-forsaken British colony in South America, to collect two horses from a French-Swiss religious nutter worshipped by robotically obedient natives.
But Moody's main rationale for all these downgrades - of US, Swiss, French, German and British banks - is that investment banking is a riskier business than many might have thought a few years ago.
And that conviction drew others -- English, French, Swiss, American.
French actor Alain Delon is a Swiss resident as is crooner-rocker Johnny Halliday, and many other French stars and sportsmen ensure they reside for under six months in France in order to escape being taxed here on their income and capital.
Federer was using the tournament as a warm-up to the French Open, where the Swiss ace will be looking to defend his title when the tournament starts at Roland Garros on May 23.
French businessman Richard Mille put his 12-year-old Swiss watch brand on the map by producing six- and seven-figure-priced, think-outside-the box timepieces for clients like King Juan Carlos.
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As usual, the Euro-enthusiastic French-speakers, who account for only 17% of Swiss citizens, were keen: 80% of the canton of Vaud, next to Lake Geneva, for example, backed the deal.
He seemed to know everyone and could talk to them in English or French, and was familiar with the range of curious dialects known as Swiss-German.
His fashion styles -- wearing a watch over the cuff of his shirts and button-down collars never buttoned -- became trends and the paparazzi would trail him from the French Riviera to Swiss ski resorts.
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