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Lausanne

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Gribble Francis Henry

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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

CHAPTER I
THE RULE OF SAVOY AND BERNE

Though Lausanne is so near Geneva, its history, in historical times, has been widely different from that of the neighbouring town. Geneva enjoyed a modified independence from an early date, and became completely independent early in the sixteenth century. Lausanne, until nearly 300 years later, endured the domination, first of Savoy, and subsequently of Berne.

The early history is obscure and full of vexed questions as well as unfamiliar names; but the central fact is that the Counts of Savoy—they were not promoted to be Dukes of Savoy until later—took possession of the Canton of Vaud, as well as of the Chablais and the lower Valais, after the death of the last of the Zaeringen, at the beginning of the thirteenth century. For the next 300 years they exercised overlordship, limited by the charters of the towns, and, in the case of Lausanne, by the jurisdiction of the Bishop—a complicated state of things which the Swiss historical societies may be left to unravel.

It seems clear, however, that the Savoyards were no hard taskmasters. 'The country of Vaud,' says its historian, Louis Vulliemin, 'was happy and proud to belong to them. They exacted little from it, and accorded it their powerful protection. The various States used to assemble at Moudon, the central town, summoned by the Council of Moudon, or by the Governor of Vaud, acting

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