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1. See John Walton’s contribution in this book, p. 102.
2. The negotiations took place in several grand hotels around Lake Geneva before
concluding in suite 410 of the Beau-Rivage Palace. A monument was subsequently erected
in the hotel lobby to commemorate the event.
3. See Denis Bertholet’s contribution in this book, p. 316.
4. Following the new rules on diplomatic transparency, the proceedings and documents
were published after the conference closed, cf. Documents diplomatiques, Conférence de
Lausanne, Paris, Imprimerie nationale, 1923. The collection of Documents diplomatiques de
la Suisse did not keep a single document relating to the organisation of the hotels
during the conference.
5. See Lord Curzon’s telegram to Lord Hardinge (Paris), 12 October 1922, in Documents on
British Foreign Policy 1919-1939, First Series, vol. 18, London; Her Majesty’s Stationery
Office, 1972, p. 188-190; see also G. H. Bennett, British Foreign Policy during the Curzon
Period, 1919-1924, London, St Martin’s Press, 1995.
6. Gazette de Lausanne, 24 October 1922.
7. To date there has been no detailed study of the hotel industry in Lausanne, nor even
a general study such as the one conducted by Laurent Tissot on Geneva, cf. ‘L’hôtellerie
de luxe à Genève (1830-2000). De ses espaces à ses usages.’ (‘Luxury hotels in Geneva
(1820-2000). On their facilities and uses’) in Entreprises et histoire (Paris) 46,
2007, pp. 17-34.
8. Lausanne started to promote itself in earnest as a conference city after the Second
World War, particularly from 1960 and 1980 (the city appeared in tenth place in a 1983
list of top conference destinations).
9. ABR, Procès-verbaux du conseil d’administration, 1910-24 (‘Minutes of the board of
directors’ meetings, 1910-24’), p. 267.
10. L’Illustration 4168, 20 January 1923.
11. Ibidem.
12. Table taken from Conférence de Lausanne. Liste des délégués et Organisation de la
conférence (‘Conference of Lausanne. List of delegates and organisation of the
conference’), 31 December 1922, printed document, ACV S112.93.
13. L’Illustration, op. cit.
14. Feuille d’avis de Lausanne, 20 November 1922.
15. Le Temps, 19 November 1922.
16 There were three, on the Dardanelles and the Bosphorus Straits, the status of minorities,
and financial issues.
17. J. Thobie, ‘De Constantinople à Ankara: d’un Empire piétiné à une République respectée
(1920-1929)’, Relations internationales 31 (autumn), 1982, pp. 263-282.
18. ABR, Procès-verbaux du conseil d’administration 1910-1924, p. 269.
19. Idem, p. 270.
20. ABR, Rapports du conseil d’administration, (‘board meeting report’), 27 April 1923.
21. ACV, 112.93 2201, p. 232.
22. Gazette de Lausanne, 6 November 1922.
23 Le Figaro, 24 July 1923.
24. On 20 July 1936, the Montreux Convention was signed permitting Turkey to remilitarise
the Dardanelles and Bosphorus Straits.
25 Mehmet Özel, Lausanne on its 70th Anniversary, The Ministry of Culture of the Turkish
Republic, 1993.

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