Heinrich Escher
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Heinrich Escher was the mayor of Zürich
Zürich
Zurich is the largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zurich. It is located in central Switzerland at the northwestern tip of Lake Zurich...
at the turn of the 18th Century. He is credited with introducing chocolate
Chocolate
Chocolate is a raw or processed food produced from the seed of the tropical Theobroma cacao tree. Cacao has been cultivated for at least three millennia in Mexico, Central and South America. Its earliest documented use is around 1100 BC...
to Switzerland
Switzerland
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after learning about it in Brussels
Brussels
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.
At the beginning of his political
Politics
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career he became a 1652 representative of the guild
Guild
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the Meisen generally speaking advice (Zwölfer) and then of 1663 -1668 in the small advice. 1669 he became Vogt of Kyburg and from 1678 to his death he was mayor of Zürich.
He was active as a buyer in the textile
Textile
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trade. As a representative of the buyers he was member of the inhabitants of rich delegation for the renewal of the pay alliance
Alliance
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of Zürich with Ludwig XIV. After the threat of Geneva
Geneva
Geneva In the national languages of Switzerland the city is known as Genf , Ginevra and Genevra is the second-most-populous city in Switzerland and is the most populous city of Romandie, the French-speaking part of Switzerland...
and the Waldenser taken up there and Huguenot
Huguenot
The Huguenots were members of the Protestant Reformed Church of France during the 16th and 17th centuries. Since the 17th century, people who formerly would have been called Huguenots have instead simply been called French Protestants, a title suggested by their German co-religionists, the...
by France E 1687 together with a representative of Berne
Berne
The city of Bern or Berne is the Bundesstadt of Switzerland, and, with a population of , the fourth most populous city in Switzerland. The Bern agglomeration, which includes 43 municipalities, has a population of 349,000. The metropolitan area had a population of 660,000 in 2000...
to the yard Ludwig became XIV. He was sent to represent the interests of the Evangelist conditions in Zürich and Berne and the conditions Geneva allied with them.