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Copie gravée sur pierre d'un résumé du Pacte confédéral de 1291, liant les 3 premiers cantons qui devaient au cours de l'histoire, former la Suisse d'aujourd'hui. Cet exemplaire est écrit dans la langue minoritaire de la Suisse, le romanche (rumantsch, surselvisch)

Federal Charter of 1291, reported in short terms in english :
1291 IN THE NAME OF GOD – AMEN. HONOR AND THE public weal are promoted when leagues are concluded for the proper establishment of quiet and peace. Therefore, know all men, that the people of the valley of Uri, the democracy of the valley of Schwyz, and the community of the Lower Valley of Unterwalden, seeing the malice of the age, in order that they may better defend themselves, and their own, and better preserve them in proper condition, have promised in good faith to assist each other with aid, with every counsel and every favor, with person and goods, within the valley and without, with might and main, against one and all, who may inflict upon any one of them any violence, molestation or injury, or may plot any evil against their persons or goods.
Please find complete text under :
http://www.admin.ch/org/polit/00056/index.html?lang=en