In 1602, France attacked the then independent Geneva and they planned on capturing them. Since Geneva was so small, their military wasn’t as good as the french army so the people had to do it on their own. One night a woman was making sure that the french didn’t take her apartment. She threw everything against them and soon ran out of stuff to throw. In the end she threw boiling soup out of her window and the french army ran off and that’s the story of the escalade

This morning we explained the meaning and the historical significance of the esacalde to the rest of our Boarding House, and we smashed the chocolate marmite. In tradition, the oldest and the youngest person in the room get to break the marmite.

by Loris Baya (Grade 7)