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located between the Place du Port and the Chemin de Beau- 1. On the Sandoz Familiy, see: Jean-Pierre Jelmini (ed.), Du moyen âge au 3 e millénaire: les
Sandoz, une famille des Montagnes à la conquête du monde, Neuchâtel: Editions Attinger, 1999.
Rivage decided to develop their property. Various plans were 2. ABR, shelf mark 002. Very complete folder concerning the Peace statue.
drawn up: the initial idea was to construct a row of seven- 3. On this subject, see the detailed article of the same title by Joëlle Neuenschwander
Feihl in: Nadja Maillard (ed.), L’Hôtel d’Angleterre à Lausanne, Histoire et Architecture, Payot,
storey buildings, then two buildings with twelve and ten storeys Lausanne, 2002. See also, in the 1950-59 volume of board meeting minutes
(the Procès-verbaux du conseil d’administration 1950-59), pp. 272, 292-294, 384-387,
respectively, plus some other lower buildings, which would be 388-392, 392-395, 400-402 and 402-406).
located along the Avenue d’Ouchy and the Chemin de Beau-
Rivage. When the land development project – the so-called ‘Plan
Quillet’ – went to a public hearing in 1959, it was hotly disputed.
Edouard-Marcel Sandoz’s reaction was quick and decisive. To
begin with, he offered to buy the land and buildings concerned.
There followed a series of protracted negotiations, which involved
bringing the city authorities on-side and agreeing a compensation
package for the developers who were effectively being prevented
from building on their own land. Sandoz enlisted the support
of the mayor of Lausanne, Georges-André Chevallaz, and on 11
May 1962 a new development plan for the land was officially
approved, ‘Ouchy-la-Verte’, whose scope was to preserve the
existing buildings.
At this point Edouard-Marcel Sandoz donated 4 million
francs to the city of Lausanne, allowing them to buy back the
buildings from the developers. The new partial action plan was
endorsed (with the agreement of the Fondation de Famille
Sandoz) at the end of the 1990s, concluding the third and final act
of the drama: the plan will safeguard Ouchy’s natural beauty and
unique architecture for years to come, and will also underline its
predominant role as a hotel district.

Plates designed for the hotel by Edouard-Marcel Sandoz and manufactured Fig. 5
by the Swiss company Langenthal in the 1950s. One of the pair of large greyhounds in black and white veined Carrara marble
standing on either side of the steps to the main entrance of the Beau-Rivage. The
two dogs, sculpted by Edouard-Marcel Sandoz, were exhibited in Paris at Galerie
Malesherbes in 1934.
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