"the political swing". Contemporary caricature of the conditions in the helvetic republic in 1803. Napoleon bonaparte is on a swing keeping the aristocratic-federalist and the revolutionary-unitarian forces in balance, while he takes over the valais according to the principle of "divide and rule". On the swing is written hodie mihi, cras tibi (today mine, tomorrow yours). In the background on the left is the city of milan, to which the valais is the strategic key (simplon pass).
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