Traveling input for Geneva > Chamonix > Paris?

I fully agree with onyx. Geneva was alwas open for foreign people and ideas, like the French clergyman Jean Calvin or the famous writer and philosopher Voltaire and thousands of Huguenots......
At the same time, Geneva was mentally more Swiss than many Swiss cantons even before the entry into the Swiss Confederation. That's true for the ideas of Jacques Necker, citizen of Geneva and Finance Minister of King Louis XIV, Germaine de Stael, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Pictet de Rochemont and many other people from Geneva....
In a touristic view, there are some outstanding museums (who organize much more interesting temporary exhibitions than museums of bigger towns in neigbouring France), among them the Museum of Red Cross and Human Dignity and - typically genevois - the Museum of the History of the Swiss abroad. Some people visit famous watch factories or the CERN and all enjoy the historic paddle steamboats on Lake Geneva and the good views to omnipresent Mont Blanc. Others visit the vineyards of the Mandement or the hundreds of kms of well signmarked hiking trails in the Jura up to Vallee de Joux where some of the most famous Swiss watchmakers come from......

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