# The Counts of Gruyère Author: De Koven, Anna, 1860-1953 Genre: Category: History - European Language: English License: Public domain Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/22255 Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Counts+of+Gruy%C3%A8re+De+Koven&tag=cyberlibrar00-20 ## Summary While the high mountainous regions of eastern Switzerland were early scaled and settled by the Germanic tribes, the western were still earlier inhabited by the ancient Celtic-Helvetians and then civilized and cultivated by the most luxurious of Roman colonies. Resisting first and then happily mingling with their Roman conquerors, the Celtic people were transformed into a Romand race, similar in speech and origin to the French. In the heart of this Romand country was an ancient principality where the essential qualities of the beauty loving and imaginative races, Roman and Celtic, expressed themselves uniquely. A fountain of Celtic song and legend, a centre of chivalry and warlike power, t... ## Chapters - [Chapter 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-counts-of-gruyere-22255/chapters/9/index.md) - [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-counts-of-gruyere-22255/chapters/3/index.md) - [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-counts-of-gruyere-22255/chapters/6/index.md) - [Chapter 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-counts-of-gruyere-22255/chapters/10/index.md) - [Chapter 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-counts-of-gruyere-22255/chapters/8/index.md) - [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-counts-of-gruyere-22255/chapters/2/index.md) - [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-counts-of-gruyere-22255/chapters/4/index.md) - [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-counts-of-gruyere-22255/chapters/5/index.md) - [Chapter 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-counts-of-gruyere-22255/chapters/7/index.md) - [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-counts-of-gruyere-22255/chapters/1/index.md)