The oldest part are the sections opened by the West Switzerland Company (French: Compagnie de l'Ouest-Suisse, OS) in May 1855 from Yverdon-les-Bains to Bussigny-près-Lausanne and in July 1855 from Bussigny to Morges via Renens.
In May 1855 it opened the line from Bussigny-près-Lausanne to Yverdon and on 1 July 1855 from Bussigny to Morges via Renens as part of the Jura foot line.
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In this letter to François Tronchin, written at Monriond, near Lausanne, dated January 29, 1756, Voltaire mentions the earthquake that destroyed Lisbon, Portugal, on November 1, 1755.
Both of these were first edited in the second volume of Historiae Francorum Scriptores, published at Paris in 1639–49.
Robert Schumann: Das Paradies und die Peri, with Christoph Pregardien, Robert Gambill, Edith Wiens, Anne Gjevang, Sylvia Herman, & Hans-Peter Scheidegger; Romand Chamber Choir, Pro Arte Chorus of Lausanne; l'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande.
The authority to construct the railway was gained in three stages, that from Bex, a small town on the main Lausanne–Simplon railway, to Villars-sur-Ollon on 15 October 1897; from Villars to Chesières on 19 December 1905 and from Villars to Bretaye on 5 October 1911.
Past presidents include Jørgen Randers, co-author of the Club of Rome Report Limits to Growth; Peter Lorange, former president of IMD in Lausanne, Switzerland; Leif Frode Onarheim, a former member of the Norwegian Parliament and current CEO of leading Norwegian fish farming company Marine Harvest.
As a pianist, he has performed in such venues as Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Tchaikovsky Hall in Moscow, the Salle Paderewski in Lausanne, and at such festivals as Aspen, Tanglewood and Verbier.
Dans une galaxie près de chez vous (English: In a galaxy near you) is a Quebec French language television series that aired on Canal Famille (later Vrak.TV) from 1998 to 2001, and a movie of the same name, released in 2004.
Bittleman's work includes fiber and silk tapestries that have featured in exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), the Lausanne International Tapestry Biennial and the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, New York.
Fernand Auberjonois (September 25, 1910, Valeyres-sous-Montagny, near Lausanne, Switzerland–August 27, 2004, Cork, Ireland) was a highly respected journalist who worked as the foreign correspondent of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and the Toledo Blade.
The congress was a conference of some 2,700 evangelical Christian leaders that was held in the Palais de Beaulieu in Lausanne, Switzerland in 1974 to discuss the progress, resources and methods of evangelizing the world.
In the middle of the 19th century, the construction of Boulevard Saint-Germain by Baron Haussmann required the destruction of the site where the fountain was located.
Nine universities conferred him the title of Doctorate Honoris Causa: Groningen (1914), Leuven (1927), Warsaw (1929), Brussels (1929), Geneva (1930), Jassy (1934), Lausanne (1935), Basel (1936) and Athens (1937).
He was formerly a Visiting Professor of Finance at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, at HEC, Lausanne, Switzerland and at the Thunderbird School of Global Management.
The station is also on the preserved railway of the Chemin de Fer Touristique du Haut Quercy (CFTHQ) which operates between Martel and Saint-Denis-lès-Martel, a distance of 7 km.
The Carolingian architecture of his palace complex at Germigny-des-Prés was in a general sense modelled on Charlemagne's Palace of Aachen.
L'Extrême-Occidentale, Éditions Mayer, Lausanne 1961 with 7 engravings by Jean Arp, Brauner, Max Ernst, Jacques Hérold, Wifredo Lam, Roberto Matta, Dorothea Tanning
Stierlin studied Classics with Law at the Universities of Lausanne and Zurich.
He traveled to Switzerland, where he continued his education at a high school in Lausanne and then studied electrical engineering at the Zürich polytechnic.
On 11 June 1349, Jean des Prés was at Cambrai where he performed divine service celebrating the feast of Corpus Christi.
In 1845 Falret visited the Illenau asylum near Achern in the Grand Duchy of Baden, publishing Visite a l'établissement d'aliénés d'Illenau : (prés Achern, grand-duché de Bade), et considérations générales sur les asiles d'aliénés as a result of his experience.
Upon the completion of his doctorate work in Lausanne in 1901, he spent the next three years in Paris and Munich, where he broadened his knowledge of Western European thought and literary theory and fell under the influence of the French thinkers, Jean-Marie Guyau in particular.
On a study trip to Switzerland in 1833–35, he made the acquaintance of the aristocratic painter Maximilien de Meuron, by whose influence he obtained commissions for two panoramas of Lausanne.
The world-wide first soccer club Sheffield F.C. is only three years older, however it is likely that Lausanne played cricket before football at the club (as it was more well established).
There is also a network of local services from Lausanne, primarily as part of the Léman RER, and platforms for line 2 of the Lausanne Metro.
In the years between 1926 and 1933 Bruna Rasa sang throughout Italy as well as in Montecarlo, Nice, Lausanne and Barcelona where she sang Aida at the city's Gran Teatre del Liceu.
"He was a curious character: prince of the blood, abbé of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, military officer, libertine, man of letters (or at least a member of the Academy), anti-Parlement, religious during his final years, he was one of the most striking examples (and one of the most amusing on certain days) and also one of the most shocking (although not at all odious), of the abuses and disparities pushed to scandal, under the Old Order, of pleasure and privilege." (Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve).
Lucien Génin (Rouen, 9 November 1894 - Paris, 26 August 1953) was a French painter in the milieu of pre-World War I, and 1920s Montmartre and Saint-Germain-des-Prés.
In Lausanne he studied at the Ecole Politechnique Federale (EPFL) a well-resourced university that managed to attract all the top architect of the time as guest professors – from Kenneth Frampton to Rafael Moneo and Alvaro Siza, with Umberto Riva being Luigi’s thesis mentor.
Despite being reelected at the October 2007 federal elections, 11 days later, on 1 November 2007 Huguenin announced her resignation from the National Council and decision to focus her work on her position as mayor of Renens (a suburb of Lausanne, Vaud).
His film, China and Table Tennis, made for the BBC, won bronze medal at the Olympic Golden Rings ceremony in Lausanne in 2008.
In 2000 he became Program Director for Latin America and the Caribbean for Terre des hommes Lausanne, Switzerland's largest independent child-focused NGO.
As a teenager, she was an outstanding student in Lausanne and dreamed of becoming a successful fashion designer.
Nagra is a trademark of a series of mostly battery-operated portable professional audio recorders produced by Kudelski SA, based in Cheseaux-sur-Lausanne, Switzerland.
He graduated with a masters degree from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and International Institute for Management Development, Lausanne.
Re-titled "Près de toi (Suddenly)", it is a multilingual song in French, English and Persian and contains a sampling of Algerian classic "Abdel Kader" with Arash featuring Najim and Swedish-Mexican star Rebecca Zadig
National Preservation is the trading name for Nat Pres Ltd, a British-based online company that specialises in retail and discussion among railway enthusiasts.
Patti's television credits include The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Late Show with David Letterman, The View, Entertainment Tonight, Don't Forget the Lyrics, Qcheck, Huckabee, Lopez Tonight, The USA Music Challenge, Top Of The Pops, Brit Awards, American Music Awards, Party in the Park- Hyde Park UK, Prince's Trust- UK, Pres.
Born in Lausanne, he studied literature at the University of Lausanne and was president of the Swiss Students' Association.
He was in 1973/74 a postdoc at the University of Milan, from 1977 to 1981 an assistant at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, from 1981 to 1983 at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center of IBM, from 1984 to 1990 associate professor for physics at SISSA in Trieste (in 1990/91 as full professor) and from 1991 to 1999 professor for physics at the University of Geneva (and director of the IRRMA of the ETH Lausanne).
Egyptian writer Albert Cossery spent the later part of his life living in a hotel in this district.
Samuel Auguste André David Tissot (20 March 1728, Grancy - 13 June 1797, Lausanne) was a notable 18th century Swiss physician.
Santana do Livramento has an airport but scheduled flights to the Brazilian city usually use Pres. Gral. Óscar D. Gestido International Airport in neighboring Rivera, Uruguay.
The premises in Lausanne became too small, so SAPAL moved in 1964 to a new factory in Écublens, on the outskirts of Lausanne, which is the present location of the company.
Carolyn Forché, who was influenced by Des Pres, and organized the "Genocide and Memory" conference in 1997, where Des Pres was remembered
Théâtre de la foire is the collective name given to the theatre put on at the annual fairs at Saint-Germain and Saint-Laurent (and for a time, at Saint-Ovide) in Paris.
Some laboratories are located in Épalinges (north of Lausanne), on a campus shared with the University of Lausanne and the Biopôle.
He serves on the Foundation Board of the International Institute for Management Development in Lausanne, Switzerland, on the Management Board of GS1, on the Summit Committee of the Consumer Goods Forum.