• Val-de-Travers District was one of the six districts of the canton of Neuchâtel, Switzerland, until the district level was eliminated on 1 January 2018...
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    Noiraigue, Saint-Sulpice and Travers merged to form Val-de-Travers. The region is known for its production of absinthe. Val-de-Travers is first mentioned in...
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    wide and 150 metres deep, on the north side of Le Soliat, in the Val de Travers district in the Swiss canton of Neuchâtel. A very well known, amphitheatre-shaped...
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    Édouard Bovet (category People from Val-de-Travers District)
    that marks Bovet watches. Bovet originated from this village in the Val-de-Travers, to the west of Neuchâtel. Watchmaking was introduced there between...
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    Édouard Piaget (category People from Val-de-Travers District)
    (Phthiraptera). As a young man, Piaget became a teacher of French at Mr. de Raedt's Instituut Noorthey [nl], an upper class boarding school in the Netherlands...
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    Charles Édouard Guillaume (category People from Val-de-Travers District)
    also worked with Kristian Birkeland, serving at the Observatoire de Paris – Section de Meudon. He conducted several experiments with thermostatic measurements...
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  • Salomé de Gélieu (17 April 1742, Les Bayards - 29 March 1820, Colombier) was a Swiss educator and governess to several members of princely courts in Europe...
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    Daniel Bovet (category People from Val-de-Travers District)
    Frisch / Konrad Lorenz / Nikolaas Tinbergen 1974: Albert Claude / Christian de Duve / George Palade 1975: David Baltimore / Renato Dulbecco / Howard Temin...
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    Ferdinand Berthoud (category People from Val-de-Travers District)
    burgher of Couvet, burgher of Neuchâtel, and justice of the peace for Val-de-Travers from 1717 to 1732. His mother, Judith Berthoud (1682–1765) was born...
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    Leo Lesquereux (category People from Val-de-Travers District)
    Switzerland as a schoolteacher, and later principal at the College of La Chaux-de-Fonds. In 1833 he suffered a total loss of hearing due illness and a fall...
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