Side by side

Switzerland and France compared

Two sourced records set beside each other — the figures each nation publishes, and the events each chronicle records of the other. Compared, never graded.

🇨🇭Switzerland

1291 — The Federal Charter binds Uri, Schwyz and Unterwalden

Dossier →Chronicle →

🇫🇷France

10 August 843 — The Treaty of Verdun gives Charles the Bald West Francia

Dossier →Chronicle →

Shared indicators
42
Domains
9
Crossed events
3
Data through
2026-08-10

The figures, side by side

Each figure is the same observation, with the same source, as on the two dossiers. Every value shows the year it was observed — vintages differ by indicator and nation. A “—” is an absence in the source data, never a zero. Metric names link to the world ranking; values open the figure on its own dossier.

Economy

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Society

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Governance

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Health

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Education

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Technology

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Geography

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Resources

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Military

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Entangled histories

3 events in which either nation’s sourced chronicle names the other — including under earlier names of the same state. Each is the same record, with the same sources, as on its own chronicle; nothing here was written for this page.

  1. 13–14 Sep 1515

    Battle of Marignano

    A French army under Francis I decisively defeated the Swiss near Milan, the first great Swiss defeat in two hundred years; the Confederates withdrew from Italy, a retreat traditionally seen as the dawn of Swiss neutrality.

    War & Rupture · from the Switzerland chronicle · Marignano, the Reformation and the Turn to Neutrality · Neutrality, Switzerland: History

  2. 1798

    French invasion and the Helvetic Republic

    Revolutionary France conquered Switzerland and replaced the old Confederation with the Helvetic Republic, a centralised unitary state that abolished cantonal sovereignty and the privileges of the patrician towns.

    War & Rupture · from the Switzerland chronicle · The Helvetic Republic, Napoleon and the Recognition of Neutrality · Helvetic Republic, The History of Switzerland

  3. 19 Feb 1803

    Napoleon's Act of Mediation

    After years of factional strife Napoleon imposed the Act of Mediation, restoring a confederal system and creating six new full cantons, including Vaud and Ticino, while keeping Switzerland tied to France.

    Politics & Power · from the Switzerland chronicle · The Helvetic Republic, Napoleon and the Recognition of Neutrality · Helvetic Republic