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that stood along its western side. The houses were bought by the the life insurance company founded in 1858. Philippe Bovet-Mumm, of Boudry,
Lausanne-Ouchy railway company which replaced them with a former merchant. Émile de Crousaz (1806-80), lawyer of independent means, local
Liberal councillor from 1832 to 1849 and from 1851 to 1874, municipal councillor from
large complex designed by Francis Isoz, including a station, hotel 1834 to 1846 and from December 1857 to 1861, member of the Grand Conseil, or cantonal
parliament, from 1853 to 1866. Founder and sponsor of several charitable organisations.
and luxury apartments, as well as accommodation for railway Appointed President of SIO in 1858, after Dapples was elected mayor and resigned from
the board of management. Édouard Dapples, see note 10 below. Charles Duplan-Veillon
employees in the courtyard. The seven-storey buildings, with their (1813-90), became investigating magistrate in 1857 and public prosecutor in 1866.
Liberal local councillor from 1843 to 1849, cantonal councillor from 1862 to 1866,
magnificent roofs of glazed tiles in the style of the region and eaves and member of the Conseil National, or Swiss National Council, from 1867 to 1868.
William Haldimand (1784-1862), financier, former director of the Bank of England
painted with friezes of plant motifs, were a complete departure and British MP, philanthropist, bourgeois d’honneur of Lausanne, who became owner of the
from the village ambiance that still survives on the eastern island. Denantou estate in 1818 and of the Élysée estate in 1850. Jean Pasche, former voiturier
(supplier of coach and horses for hire) of Ouchy.
The most striking features of the hotel inside which the station 8. Bulletin des séances du Grand Conseil du Canton de Vaud, Lausanne, 1857, pp. 179-180:

session of 14 May 1857.
is located are the imposing loggias above the entrance leading to 9. Lausanne City Archives (AVL), agreement between the Société immobilière d’Ouchy
and the municipal council of Lausanne, 28 May 1857.

the platforms and the turret with its clock, confirming that this is, 10. Édouard Dapples (1807-87), son of a doctor and great nephew of the famous Dr Samuel
Tissot, began as a forestry inspector; appointed municipal councillor in 1834, mayor
indeed, a railway station (fig. 10). of Lausanne from 1842 to 1848 and from 1857 to 1867. A member of the Grand Conseil
from 1844 to 1845 and from 1847 to 1868, member of the Conseil National, or Swiss
This was the last large-scale hotel construction project at National Council, from 1851 to 1854 and from 1857 to 1866 (president in 1860-61),
Ouchy prior to 1986, when the Mövenpick was built. Standing he was a leading figure in the Liberal Party. A firm supporter of the devlopment of
the city, he championed the Ceinture Pichard project to build a ring road round the
symbolically on the site of the old gasworks, the building marks old town, and plans for the Lausanne-Fribourg-Berne rail link, which earned him his
second term as mayor. As a philanthropist, he lent financial support to the building
the final chapter in the history of the tourist industry’s conquest of the children’s hospital, Hôpital de l’Enfance, in 1864. Having retired from politics,
in 1880, he donated land to the local authority to build a new quay and create an
of Ouchy, which began 130 years before and included a decisive English-style garden south of the castle.
11. Subscription offer published in the Gazette de Lausanne, 14 July 1857 and in
stage in the 1960s when the commercial port was converted into the Nouvelliste Vaudois, 15 June 1857.
12. Ibidem.
a marina. This was part of a complete waterfront redevelopment 13. Louis Joël, ’Rapport sur les travaux projetés à Ouchy’, in Journal des tribunaux, p. 373,
no. 16, 15 August 1857.
programme in the run-up to the Swiss National Exhibition of 14. Idem, pp. 374-375.
1964. To make way for the transformation, the cgn moved its 15. Idem, p. 376.
16. Pascal Ruedin, Le Château de la famille Mercier-de Molin à Sierre. Histoire et collections
workshops a few hundred metres further west. d’une dynastie bourgeoise en Suisse au début du XX e siècle, Éditions Monographie, Sierre,
1998, p. 25.
17. Vaud cantonal archives (ACV), Projet d’exposé des motifs du décret de vente du Château
d’Ouchy, 12 février 1884.
1. For the medieval castle, see Marcel Grandjean, Les Monuments d’art et d’histoire du canton 18. 7 e rapport du Comité de la Société pour le Développement de Lausanne, Lausanne, 1891.
de Vaud: Lausanne, vol. 1, Birkhäuser, Basle 1965, pp. 337-344. 19. Jacques Tschumi, manager of the Beau-Rivage Palace, Monsieur Goergens, principal of
2. For the history of Ouchy, see Marcel Grandjean, Les Monuments d’art et d’histoire du the boarding school and Messrs Perrin and J. Muller, owner and manager respectively
canton de Vaud: Lausanne, vol. 4, Birkhäuser, Basle, 1981, pp. 41-46. of the Angleterre.
3. For country houses, see Marcel Grandjean, Les Monuments d’art et d’histoire du canton de 20. Gazette de Lausanne, 22 September 1894.
Vaud:Lausanne, vol. 4, Birkhäuser, Basle, 1981, pp. 17-28, 33-38, 64-74. 21. 10 e rapport du Comité de la Société pour le Développement de Lausanne, Lausanne, 1894.
4. On the subject of the Hôtel d’Angleterre, see Marcel Grandjean, Les Monuments d’art et Quays were built along the entire waterfront at Vevey between 1844 and 1876 and work
d’histoire du canton de Vaud: Lausanne, vol. 4, Birkhäuser, Basle, 1981, pp. 46-50, and on constructing quays at Montreux began in 1891.
the anthology published following the hotel’s complete renovation: Nadja Maillard (ed.), 22. Gazette de Lausanne, 1 November 1894.
L’hôtel d’Angleterre à Lausanne. Histoire et architecture, Payot, Lausanne, 2002. 23. Ibidem.
5. See Marcel Grandjean, Les Monuments d’art et d’histoire du canton de Vaud:Lausanne, 24. Ibidem.
vol. 4, Birkhäuser, Basle 1981, pp. 50-58. 25. Bulletin officiel des séances du Conseil communal de Lausanne, Lausanne, 11 November 1895.
6. See Jacques-Louis Manget, Description et itinéraire des bords du lac de Genève ou 26. Idem, 17 September 1895.
manuel du voyageur dans la vallée du Léman, Chez Monty, Geneva, 1822; George Mallet,
Le tour du lac de Genève, P.-G. Ledouble, Geneva, 1824; Manuel historique, topographique
et statistique de Lausanne et du canton de Vaud, by Frs. R., Chez Amédée Baatard,
Lausanne, 1824.
7. Samson Boiceau († 1881), former New York businessman, founder member of La Suisse
Insurance. Émile Bory-Hollard (1825-94), lawyer and one of the town’s leading
bankers, Liberal MP from 1857 to 1862, president of the SOS Railway Company and of the
Jura-Simplon Railway. Together with Louis Ruchonnet, radical leader and future federal
councillor, he helped establish two banks, the Union Vaudoise de Crédit in 1864 and the
Caisse d’Épargne et de crédit, in 1867. He was also a founder member of La Suisse,
The new Hôtel du Parc and funicular station. Postcard, c.1906.

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