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reflect more profoundly on our relationship with time. Listed 1. ‘Beau-Rivage, the elite luxury hotel and the luxury hotel of the elite.’ On this point,
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in curiously plain terms – deposits, sources, assets – the archives see, in particular, Archives du Beau-Rivage (ABR), Société immobilière d’Ouchy. Hôtel Beau-
Rivage S.A. Procès-verbaux des séances du conseil 1950 à 1959, 30 April 1951, pp. 47-48;
prove and verify the facts, as in the page by Michel Déon which 19 August 1952, p. 97.
2. Rodolphe Töpffer, ’Des voyages de de Saussure’, in Horace-Bénédict de Saussure,
Voyages dans les Alpes: partie pittoresque des ouvrages de H.-B. de Saussure. Troisième
at first appears to be fictional, but takes on another dimension édition augmentée des voyages au Mont-Cervin et autour du Mont-Rose, Joel Cherbuliez
when the reception book reveals a ‘real’ signature (fig. 12). Editeur, Paris, 1855, p. 350.
3. Alphonse Daudet, Tartarin of Tarascon. Tartarin on the Alps, etc., Everyman’s Library
The archives can also be used to generate ideas: Jean-Jacques no. 423, London, New York, 1954 [1901], pp. 4-6.
4. Alice Rivaz, L’alphabet du matin, L’Aire, Lausanne, 1968, pp. 77-78.
Langendorf’s short story is based on a real event, a Georgian 5. Georges de Montenach, Pour le village: la conservation de la classe paysanne, Paris, Payot
princess’s stay at the hotel which came to light in an old foreign (Collection ‘Propagande esthétique et sociale’), 1916, pp. 552-553 [Appendix to the text:
Voeux présentés par M. de Montenach au IVe congrès d’Art Public à Bruxelles, October 1910].
guestbook of 1899. They are thus the departure point for partial 6. Philippe Godet, Neuchâtel pittoresque [Société anonyme des Arts Graphiques, Sécheron-

Geneva], 1901 and 1902. Guillaume Fatio, Ouvrons les yeux!: voyage esthétique à travers
reconstructions of events, varied interpretations, and multilayered la Suisse, Geneva, 1904. Charles Melley, ‘“Modern style” et traditions locales’, Bulletin
technique de la suisse romande 30, no. 2, 1904.
explorations. 7. Léon-Paul Fargue, ‘Palaces et hôtels’, in Le piéton de Paris, Gallimard, Paris,
2001 [1932], p. 203. Pierre Sansot, Poétique de la ville, Petite Bibliothèque Payot,
Paris, 2004 [1971], p. 517.
8. Joseph Roth, Hôtel Savoy, Gallimard, Paris, 2005 [1956]. Vicki Baum, Grand Hotel, Pan
Books, London, 1977, translated from the German by Basil Creighton [1929].
9. Claude Simon, The Palace, Jonathan Cape, London 1964, translated from the French by
Richard Howard [1962], p. 15.
10. ABR, Société immobilière d’Ouchy. Hôtel Beau-Rivage S.A. Procès-verbaux des séances du
conseil 1950 à 1959, 27 September 1956.
11. See, for example, the film Oci Ciornie (Dark Eyes, 1987), adapted by Nikita Mikhalkov
from several short stories by Anton Chekhov including The Lady with the Dog (1899);
Claude Chabrol’s Rien ne va plus (The Swindle, 1997), some of which is set in the Hotel
Waldhaus Sils-Maria, and Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner, Jonathan Cape (UK) & Pantheon
(USA), 1984.
12. Letter from Walter Schnyder to Roger Nordmann, 10 October 1960.
13. ABR, Société immobilière d’Ouchy. Hôtel Beau-Rivage S.A. Procès-verbaux des séances
du conseil 1950 à 1959, 9.4.1957, p. 287.
14. Ernest Lehman, North by Northwest. Film script, 8 December 1958, on:
http://www.dailyscript.com.
15. MHL, shelfmark: P.2.M.A.1.P.49.176.
16. Léon-Paul Fargue, ‘Palaces et hôtels’, op. cit., p. 194.
17. Valéry Larbaud, A. O. Barnabooth: Son journal intime, Gallimard, Paris, 2006 [1913].
18. George Orwell, Down and out in Paris and London, Victor Gollancz, London, 1933.
19. Vicki Baum, Grand Hotel, op. cit., p. 139.
20. Alfred Savoir [alias Alfred Poszanski], La Grande-Duchesse et le garçon d’étage,
La Petite Illustration, Paris, 1924.
21. Jacques Martin, Gilles Chaillet, La Cible, Tournai: Casterman, 1989.
22. The Grand Duchess and the Waiter, 1926.
23. Vicki Baum, Grand Hotel, op. cit., p. 236.
24. On this subject see Marie-Pascale Huglo, ‘Poétiques de l’archive’, Protée 35,
winter 2007-08.

The reception desk at Beau-Rivage as pictured by Jacques Martin and Gilles Fig. 10 >
Chaillet in an adventure of the comic strip hero, reporter Guy Lefranc, A horse-drawn Ochsner cart collects refuse from the Beau-Rivage Palace,
set in Lausanne, Quebec and the Pacific (La cible, 1989, p. 8). photograph, 1913.

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