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Léon Savary (Fleurier, 1895 - Boudry, 1968) was a Swiss French-speaking writer and journalist from Payerne, Vaud. ==Biography== Savary was the son of a German russified aristocratic mother from the Baltic region (Von Paucker) and a father from Vaud. After studying at the University of Fribourg, he worked for many years for the Geneva newspaper ''la tribune de Genève'', in Geneva, and correspondent in Bern (1935-1946) and Paris (1946-1956). He was Historian of the city of his own choice Fribourg.〔Biography (Léon Savary in ''Larousse'' Dictionary ) Retrieved March 4, 2014〕 He wrote about twenty books, most of them are not published anymore. He had a great knowledge of the Swiss political system and habits. In ''Letters with Suzanne'' (French: ''Lettres à Suzanne'', Lausanne, Switzerland, 1949), he denounced ''"the occult influence of hitlerism on Swiss people during the second world war, which were not conscious of being under"''. About Swiss Politic in general, in the same book, covering the Federal Palace, he said, with his alert and sharp pen: ''"The Swiss do not desire great men, and in politics, they are afraid to have them. What they like is honesty and average aptitude to manage public affairs like a shop. They mistrust superiority and, let us frankly admit, they are horrified at genius. No geniuses, no saints, even talent is suspect. It is enough to say that a politician who showed signs of surpassing the low water mark would be promptly subject to public discredit''" After coming back from Paris in 1956, he spent the end of his life in the cities of Vevey and Bulle. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Léon Savary」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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