 However France, Bern and Savoy sent a military force to Geneva, causing the leading revolutionaries to flee to nearby Neuchâtel (then under Prussia), saying they would refound Geneva elsewhere along with industrious fellow-citizens.The invaders imposed a new constitution on Geneva entrenching the aristocracy.This caused many Genevans to emigrate and try to build a new Geneva at, for example, Waterford, Cologne or Brussels.