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1. And the reverse is also true: ‘the architecture of the text’, etc. 13. Archives de la construction moderne (ACM), collection no. 34, Jules Carrard.
2. Scritture disegnate, Dedalo, Bari 2000, p. 9, et sqq. 14. ABR, framed and displayed in the hotel.
3. Archives du Beau-Rivage (ABR), 001. Poem in alexandrines of eight quatrains, with lines 15. Rossini’s William Tell (1829) and Bellini’s The Sleepwalker (1831) found lasting
that rhyme alternately, typed and dated 16 October 1937; the author’s name is added by international success.
hand: ‘Mme Wertphalen du Havre’. An examination of the hotel register reveals that the guest 16. The painting, whose purchase for the sum of 200 fr. was voted for by the SIO in its meeting
took up residence on the 10th. of 2 October 1916, is still in the hotel. A studio stamp by way of a signature allows us
4. Gianni Contessi, Scritture disegnate, op. cit., p. 11. to imagine that it came from the estate of the painter’s widow; unfortunately the report
5. The Beau-Rivage budget rose from 5000 to 12,000 fr. in 1924 (ABR, minutes of the meeting (ACV, Inv. K xix 29/856) does not contain a sufficiently detailed inventory to corroborate
of the SIO of 10 March 1924); by way of comparison, the wages of a gardener hired the this supposition.
same year amounted to 500 fr. a month, without lodgings (ABR, minutes of the meeting 17. Neuenschwander Feihl, Joëlle and Schmutz, Catherine, L’Hôtel Beau-Rivage, Lausanne: BRP,
of 25 March). 1997, p. 25. The board gave the following assessment of it: ’It seems to us to have a very
6. Species of Spaces and Other Pieces, Georges Perec, trans. John Sturrock, Penguin Books, attractive appearance and is an advantageous replacement for the drab enclosure and the
London, 1998. hedge that closed off our property along the length of the lake.’ (ABR, Société immobilière
7. This attribution, which perhaps rests on no more than the style’s namesake, appears only d’Ouchy (SIO) board of directors’ report to the shareholders’ annual general meeting on the
very cursorily in a list of creations: Claire Frange (dir.), Le style Duchêne: Henri et 1903 financial year, Lausanne, 1904.)
Achille Duchêne, landscape gardeners, 1841-1947, [Paris]: Labyrinthe, 1998 p. 189. It is 18. The protection of natural sites (American-style parks) is often put before that of cultural
reported in the ICOMOS census, extended to the whole of the garden (which is objects; see for instance: Dominique Audrerie, Questions sur le patrimoine, [Bordeaux]:
indisputably incorrect). Ed. Confluences, 2003, p. 48.
8. ‘Where you feel at home, there is your homeland.’ In reality, Cicero wrote the rather less 19. ABR 003 p. 1, see also ibid. p. 2: ‘that would require the sacrifice of too many precious
succinct ‘Patria est, ubicumque est bene’ (Tusculanae disputationes, 5.108). plantations, and would form a screen in front of the Elysée property’.
9. The present-day Quai de Belgique and Quai d’Ouchy, see Joëlle Neuenschwander Feihl et 20. Archives de la Ville de Lausanne (AVL, Lausanne municipal archive) 159, Pierre Bonnard
al. ‘Lausanne’, in: insa. Inventaire Suisse d’Architecture 1850-1920, volume 5, Berne, Société arch., surveys from 22 April to 3 May and from 11 to 22 December 1977.
d’Histoire de l’Art en Suisse (SHAS), 1990, p. 296. 21. AVL 159, Yvan Menetrey, lands., dossier on the survey from 14 to 27.12.1979 (microfilmed on
10. See Joëlle Neuenschwander’s contribution in this book, p. 186. reel 47). Authorisation was given on 11 January 1980 (cf. Wyssbrod, 1992 p. 74).
11. Such as that of the Hôtel Gibbon in Lausanne (St François 16, H Fraisse, 1838-39, 22. The last ones were apparently planted in 1972 (oral commentary of Alain Dessarp,
demolished in 1919). The Musée Historique de Lausanne (MHL) holds a lithograph showing a 19 July 2007).
bird’s eye view of the hotel’s garden arranged as an English-style park: curved walks 23. A song by Félix Baumaine and Charles Blondelet set to a melody by Edouard Deransart, 1878.
organised around a water feature with a fountain, rockeries and an openwork pavilion. 24. Reported, among others, in an article by Gilbert Salem (‘Cimetières pour chiens’, in:
(reproduced in Pionniers Suisses de l’hôtellerie, Louis Gaulis and René Creux, Paudex, 24 Heures, 1 June 2007).
Fontainemore editions, 1976, fig. 116). 25. ABR, minutes of the board meetings of 1950-59, p. 127.
12. There are many examples. In the vicinity of Lausanne, for instance, there is the landscape 26. 24 Heures, 8 November 1994, p. 28.
garden constructed by Henri-Albert de Mestral d’Aruffens, the last lord of Vuillerens 27. The federal ordinance of 23 June 2004 concerning the elimination of animal by-products
(canton of Vaud), who preserved the geometrical garden of his ancestor Gabriel-Henri, was to make the law considerably more flexible, in that it once again authorised the burial
builder of the current chateau (1710-15), but laid out the land situated to the south of animals of less than 10 kilos on private property and in specialised cemeteries
of the property, on the margins of the building’s axes, as an English-style park between (art. 16, paragraphs d and e)
1785 and 1816 (see Katia Frey: ‘…Un lieu des plus magnifiques’, Jardin et paysage au 28. The tombstone was transported to the property from Saugey, in Féchy, in 1987
château de Vuillerens’, in Utilité et Plaisir. Parcs et jardins historiques de Suisse, Brigitt (information from the former owner).
Sigel, Catherine Waeber, Katharina Medici-Mall (dir.), Gollion: Infolio, 2006, 29. Species of Spaces and Other Pieces, Georges Perec, trans. John Sturrock, Penguin Books,
pp. 156-161 and fig. 6). London, 1998.

Fig. 11
François Bocion, The fountain in the gardens of the Beau-Rivage.
Oil on canvas, 32 x 40 cm, Lausanne, before 1890.

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