Two-hundred Swiss franc note(Eighth series)

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Description:
Size: 74 x 170mm
Main color: Brown Date of issue: 1 October 1997

Two-hundred Swiss franc note(Eighth series) design features

Obverse

The portrait of the front side of 200 Swiss franc note shows Charles Ferdinand Ramus (1878-1947), one of the major French-speaking Swiss authors of the 20-th century. It is characterized by high aesthetic standards and a profound commitment to the truth. During his lifetime Ramuz was often - incorrectly - classified as a regional author, even though his artistic commitment and critical analysis of the classical French mode of expression put him ahead of his time. Today, Ramuz is regarded as a modern writer who renewed the formal structure of the novel.

[1] Microtext

Reverse

[A] The mountain world. The importance of mountains in the work of Ramus in symbolized by the Diablerets massif.

[B] The lake

[C] The manuscript- The hand written passage is the foreground is from "Souvenirs sur Igor Strawinsky"

[1] Microtext (reverse)

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