LONDON
ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK
1909

Contents

PAGE
CHAPTER I
[The Rule of Savoy and Berne]1
CHAPTER II
[Emigrants and Immigrants]11
CHAPTER III
[Gibbon]15
CHAPTER IV
[Madame de Montolieu—Dr. Tissot]39
CHAPTER V
[Benjamin Constant and Madame de Staël]45
CHAPTER VI
[The Revolution]61
CHAPTER VII
[The English Colony—The Educational Advantages]65
CHAPTER VIII
[Vinet and Sainte-Beuve—Juste Olivier]75
CHAPTER IX
[Nyon]83
CHAPTER X
[The French Shore]89
CHAPTER XI
[History of the French Shore—Felix V]95
CHAPTER XII
[St. Francis de Sales]99
CHAPTER XIII
[Joseph de Maistre]105
[Index]109

List of Illustrations

1.[Lausanne Cathedral from Montbenon]Frontispiece
FACING PAGE
2.[Mont Blanc from above Morges]4
3.[Morges and the Lake from the Road to Vufflens]8
4.[Château de Vufflens, above Lausanne]12
5.[The Spires of St. François, Lausanne]16
6.[Château de Prangins]20
7.[Lausanne, looking East]26
8.[The Market Place, Lausanne]32
9.[La Tour de Haldimand—Ouchy—Lausanne]38
10.[Lausanne from the Signal]44
11.[In the Forest of Sauvabelin, above Lausanne]50
12.[Château de Blonay]56
13.[The Rhone Valley from Mont Pelerin]62
14.[A Street in St. Saphorin]68
15.[The Dents du Midi and La Tour from "Entre deux Villes"]74
16.[Lutry]80
17.[Cully from Epesse—Autumn]86
18.[Grandvaux from Cully]92
19.[The Rhone Valley from Chexbres]98
20.[The Church of St. Martin, Vevey]104