In the same year, the participating countries ( Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, West Germany, the United Kingdom, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, and the United States ) signed an accord establishing a master financial-aid-coordinating agency, the Organization for European Economic Cooperation ( later called the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, OECD ), which was headed by Frenchman Robert Marjolin.

In the words of Honorary President of the American Alpine Club, Robert H. Bates, this yeti discovery “ has apparently solved the mystery of the yeti, or at least part of it, and in so doing added to the world ’ s great wildlife preserves ” such that the shy animal that lives in trees ( and not the high snows ), and mysteries and myths of the Himalaya that it represents, can continue within a protected area nearly the size of Switzerland.

His lawyers filed an appeal in the Court of Cassation, but Papon fled to Switzerland under the name of Robert de La Rochefoucauld, in violation of French law which requires one to report to prison before the beginning of the appeal hearing.

Seventy-five delegates assembled: from Great Britain, the 6 members of the General Council, Applegarth, Eccarius, Cowell Stepney, Lessner, Lucraft, and Jung ; from France, which sent 26 delegates, among whom we may mention Dereure, Landrin, Chémalé, Murat, Aubry, Tolain, A. Richard, Palix, Varlin, and Bakunin: Belgium sent 5 delegates, among whom were Hins, Brismée, and De Paepe ; Austria 2 delegates, Neumayer and Oberwinder ; Germany sent 10 delegates, among whom were Becker, Liebknecht, Rittinghausen, and Hess ; Switzerland had 22 representatives, among whom were Burkly, Greulich, Fritz Robert, Guillaume, Schwitzguébel, and Perret ; Italy sent but one delegate, Caporusso ; from Spain there came Farga-Pellicer and Sentinon ; and the United States of America was represented by Cameron.

The children were being looked after at Wartegg Castle in Switzerland by Charles's step-grandmother Maria Theresa, although Zita managed to see them in Zurich when her son Robert needed an operation for appendicitis.

The coxless-four of Charles Eley, James MacNabb, Robert Morrison and Terence Sanders won gold for Great Britain at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris, with Canada gaining silver, and Switzerland the bronze.

However, on July 14, 1865, in what is considered the last ascent of the golden age of alpinism, the English party of Edward Whymper, Charles Hudson, Lord Francis Douglas, Douglas Robert Hadow, Michel Croz and the two Peter Taugwalders ( father and son ) were able to reach the summit by an ascent of the Hörnli ridge in Switzerland.

Reunited, Robert and an increasingly moribund Pat celebrate their remaining weeks before her inevitable death amidst the snow-covered summits of Switzerland.

Next year he travelled through Switzerland with his wife ; and after his return he formed friendships with Robert Browning, Philip Bailey, George MacDonald, Emanuel Deutsch, Lord Houghton, Ruskin, Holman Hunt, Mazzini, Tennyson and Carlyle.

On one occasion, Robert Livingston, the United States minister to France, was invited for a visit while he was touring Savoy, France, and Switzerland.

His mother was German, but born in Birsfelden near Basel in Switzerland to Robert Bäumle from Harpolingen, Baden and to Franziska Oliva Thüring from Istein, Baden.

Robert Langdon is called to CERN headquarters in Switzerland to find about the religious symbological implications of the death of CERN's finest and best-known physicist, Leonardo Vetra, a Catholic priest who as been branded with the Illuminati symbol.

Anslinger's father, Robert J. Anslinger, was born in Bern, Switzerland and had worked in that country as a barber.

Maroon 5's third studio album was recorded in 2009 in Switzerland, where the band were joined by record producer Robert John " Mutt " Lange.

The protagonist of the story is Robert Bellamy, a man hired by the NSA to locate the several bus passengers in Switzerland who had accidentally seen a weather balloon with some top secret equipment ( later on identified as a UFO ) collapsing in the woods.

Robert Julius Trumpler ( born October 2, 1886 in Zürich, Switzerland ; died September 10, 1956 in Berkeley, United States ) was a Swiss-American astronomer.

In 2009 Robert Williams Co-Founder died tragically whilst snowboarding in Switzerland whilst with Co-Founder Jason Tavaria.

In 1946 MRA bought and restored a large, derelict hotel at Caux in Switzerland, and this became a centre for reconciliation across Europe, bringing together thousands including German Chancellor Adenauer and French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman.

Robert Pinget ( Geneva, July 19, 1919 – Tours, August 25, 1997 ) was a major avant-garde French writer, born in Switzerland, who wrote several novels and other prose pieces that drew comparison to Beckett and other major Modernist writers.

Lutz was born in Zurich, Switzerland, the son of Margaret and Robert Harry Lutz.

The first FIFA Congress was held on 23 May – Robert Guérin was elected President, Victor E. Schneider of Switzerland and Carl Anton Wilhelm Hirschmann of the Netherlands were made Vice Presidents, and Louis Muhlinghaus of Belgium was appointed Secretary and Treasurer with the help of Ludvig Sylow of Denmark.

Louis Léopold Robert ( 13 May 1794 – 20 March 1835 ), Swiss painter, was born at La Chaux-de-Fonds ( Neuchâtel ) in Switzerland, but left his native place with the engraver Girardet at the age of sixteen for Paris.

In December 2004 the owner of the mother label MELT 2000 Robert Trunz bought back the rights to the Blue Room Released catalogue and now works out of Switzerland where the new company is based.

Staged and designed by Robert Wilson with León conducting, it has received over 22 performances in Germany, Switzerland, France and Mexico.

Grimm and an official of Goebbels's ministry, Wolfgang Diewerge, were put in charge of the preparations, using the files which had been seized from Moro-Giafferi's offices in Paris ( Moro-Giafferi himself had escaped to Switzerland ).

* Switzerland: Grimm

Göring was a relative of numerous descendants of the Eberle / Eberlin in Switzerland and Germany, among them German Counts Zeppelin, including aviation pioneer Ferdinand von Zeppelin ; German nationalistic art historian Hermann Grimm ( author of concept of the German hero as a mover of history that was embraced by the Nazis ); the Swiss historian of art and cultural, political and social thinker Jacob Burckhardt ; Swiss diplomat, historian and President of International Red Cross Carl J. Burckhardt ; the Merck family, the owners of the German pharmaceutical giant Merck ; major German Catholic writer and poet Gertrud von Le Fort.

Grimm says Perchta or Berchta was known " precisely in those Upper German regions where Holda leaves off, in Swabia, in Alsace, in Switzerland, in Bavaria and Austria.

It united the remaining international socialist anti-war movement, whose more prominent leaders were Vladimir Lenin, Grigory Zinoviev and Leon Trotsky from Russia, Robert Grimm from Switzerland, and Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht from Germany.

Edmond Ludlow one of the members of Parliament excepted by the act of indemnity, fled to Switzerland after the restoration of King Charles II, where he wrote his memoirs of these events.

In 2007, Foster bought the Château de Vincy in Gilly, Switzerland from the German industrialist Charles Grohe.

* 1474 – 1477: Burgundy Wars of France, Switzerland, Lorraine and Sigismund II of Habsburg against the Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy.

* March 23 – 24 – Charles I, last Emperor of Austria, leaves Austria for exile in Switzerland.

* August 26 – Old Zürich War – Battle of St. Jakob an der Birs: Charles VII of France, seeking to send away troublesome troops made idle by the truce with England, sends his son the Dauphin with a large army into Switzerland to support the claims of Emperor Frederick III.

During Leopold's exile in Switzerland ( 1945 – 1950 ), Prince Charles of Belgium acted as the regent.

* Prince Charles of Belgium served as Prince Regent of Belgium from 1944 to 1950 during the German captivity and then exile to Switzerland of his elder brother, King Leopold III of Belgium.

* 1948 – 1954: Charles Jean Bernard, Switzerland

The Austrians, therefore, happily saw Suvorov and his army out of Italy in 1799 to go meet up with the army of Alexander Korsakov, at the time assisting the Austrian Archduke Charles expel the French armies currently occupying Switzerland.

Otto's family spent the subsequent years in Switzerland, and on the Portuguese island of Madeira, where Charles died prematurely in 1922, leaving the 9-year-old Otto pretender to the throne.

Charles and Zita left for exile in Switzerland and later Madeira, where Charles died in 1922.

Charles initiated contact with the Prince via contacts in neutral Switzerland, and Zita wrote a letter inviting him to Vienna.

Charles and Zita with their children in exile at Herstenstein, Switzerland, 1921

In 1799 Masséna was granted an important command in Switzerland replacing Charles Edward Jennings de Kilmaine.

In August 1867 Charles ( US consul in Switzerland ) and George Page, two brothers from Lee County, Illinois, USA, established the Anglo-Swiss Condensed Milk Company in Cham, Switzerland.

During this period, the Belgian royal family lived in exile in Prégny, Switzerland ; King Leopold's younger brother, Prince Charles of Belgium, was made Regent of the country.

Over the course of their 45-year marriage, Charles and Anne lived in New Jersey, New York, England, France, Maine, Michigan, Connecticut, Switzerland, and Hawaii.

Charles Auguste Louis Joseph Demorny / de Morny, 1er Duc de Morny ( 15 – 16 September 1811, Switzerland – 10 March 1865, Paris ) was a French statesman.

Charles Bonnet ( March 13, 1720 – May 20, 1793 ), Swiss naturalist and philosophical writer, was born at Geneva, of a French family driven into Switzerland by the religious persecution in the 16th century.

* 3 April: BBC Deputy Managing Director Rear-Admiral Charles Carpendale became President of the First General Assembly of the International Broadcasting Union at Geneva, Switzerland.

In 1625, he was sent into Switzerland on an equally futile mission, and in 1626 to London to secure the retention of the Catholic ecclesiastics and attendants of Henrietta Maria, wife of King Charles I of England.