Its construction has been sponsored by Jacqueline Reuge, owner of the Villa Reuge Museum in Sainte-Croix (VD).
Simoneton's scale was in turn developed into a "modern Bovis scale" by Swiss "geobiologist" and former Vaud cantonal parliament member Blanche Merz (1919–2002), who founded an Institut de recherches en géobiologie at Chardonne in 1979 and whose self-published books appeared from the 1980s.
Écublens, Vaud, a municipality in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland
On 20 March 1871, Gould opened a home and school for Italian children in a room lent by a Vaudois clergyman.
Chillon was considered for purchase by the Canton of Vaud in 1998 and was briefly opened for public tours, with the intention of making it into a museum.
François Briatte (27 September 1805 – 30 January 1877) was a Swiss politician, member of the Conseil d'Etat of the Canton of Vaud (1845–1861), member and several times President of the Swiss Council of States.
LEMO is both the name of an electronic and fibre optic connector manufacturer, based in Écublens, Switzerland, and the name commonly used to refer to push-pull connectors made by that company.
Radio Frontier is the only local commercial English-language radio station for the Geneva, Lausanne and Vaud regions of Switzerland and neighbouring France.
These included Condat Abbey, which was the nucleus of the later town of Saint-Claude, Jura), Lauconne (later Saint-Lupicin, as Lupicinus was buried there), La Balme (Beaume) (later Saint-Romain-de-Roche), where Romanus was buried, and Romainmôtier (Romanum monasterium) in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.
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.
Sewa Beats is an international company with its headquarters in Écublens, Switzerland, that delivers management learning through rhythm and music.
Alexander I decided to re-populate the region, in 1822 inviting Swiss settlers of Vaud to cultivate the vineyards of Shabo.
Red Flag Communist Organisation (Organisation Communiste Le Drapeau Rouge); founded on March 27, 1977 by Rupture for Communism (Rupture pour le Communisme, RplC) in Vaud and Geneva and Struggle Organization for Communism (Organisation de Lutte pour le Communisme) in Geneva.
Holding two seats in the Swiss National Council (lower or first chamber of the Swiss parliament), going into the 2007 elections, the party stood candidates in the cantons of Zürich, Vaud, Geneva and the Ticino on their own, and in Neuchâtel the candidate was on a joint list with Solidarity.
The brother of Juste Olivier, he was well known from 1856 onwards as the author of numerous popular tales of rural life in the Canton of Vaud, especially of the region near Nyon.
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Two of the new cantons (St Gallen and Graubünden or Grisons) were formerly "associates", while the four others were made up of subject lands (i.e. controlled by other cantons) that had been conquered at different times — Aargau (1415), Thurgau (1460), Ticino (1440, 1500, 1512), and Vaud (1536).
Bellerive, Switzerland, municipality in the district of Avenches in the canton of Vaud
In Switzerland, Ederena is being grown in the town of Chardonne in the Vaud canton where it is blended with Arinarnoa, Caladoc, Carminoir, Egiodola, Malbec and Marselan.
The municipality of Goumoëns which was formed by the merger of Goumoens-le-Jux and Goumoens-la-Ville in the Canton of Vaud, Switzerland
In 2007, the Green Party was represented in the governments of the cantons Bern, Basel-City, Geneva (two ministers), Neuchâtel, Nidwalden, Vaud, Zug (two ministers) and Zurich.
The alp lies at the upper end of the Vallée du Gros Mont, just north of a 1,404 metre high pass connecting Charmey with Rougemont (in the canton of Vaud).
Jean François Aimé Théophile Philippe Gaudin or Jean François Aimée Gottlieb Philippe Gaudin (Longirod, canton de Vaud, 1766-1833) was a Swiss pastor, professor and botanist.
At the October 2007 federal elections, Zisyadis failed to win reelection, however, on 1 November 2007 successful party candidate Marianne Huguenin announced her resignation from the National Council to focus on her position as mayor of Renens, leaving Zizyadis to take the Party's seat in the National Council representing Vaud.
Joseph-Nicolas Barbeau du Barran (3 July 1761, Castelnau-d'Auzan - 16 May 1816, Assens, Vaud canton) was a French politician.
La Para (also named La Pare or La Tornette) is a mountain of the western Bernese Alps, overlooking Les Diablerets in the canton of Vaud.
La Rogivue was an independent commune in Vaud, Switzerland until it was incorporated into the municipality of Maracon.
Le Rubli (or Rüeblihorn) is a 2,285 metres high mountain in the western Bernese Alps, overlooking Rougemont in the canton of Vaud, near the border with the canton of Berne.
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).
The Musée Baud is a music-box museum in the Swiss village of L'Auberson in the Jura Mountains in the canton of Vaud.
The IGP protected Saucisson Vaudois IGP and the partly AOC protected Boutefas sausage are made from pigs that foraged for acorns in Vaud or Fribourg woods and drank local water.
The barony included the town of Rolle (except the fief of Les Uttins which belonged until the 18th century to the La Harpe family), Tartegnin, Vinzel, Luins, half of Essertines-sur-Rolle, some homes in Begnins, the region of Vincy and Saint-Vincent (now in Gilly), Bursinel and in 1615 they acquired Le Rosey Castle, Dully and Le Vaud.
The Sex Rouge (also spelled Scex Rouge) is a mountain situated in the Diablerets massif of the Bernese Alps, overlooking Les Diablerets in the canton of Vaud.
It supported electoral candidatures of politicians wanting to repeal the ban on the party (such as Florian Delhorbe in Vaud in July 1942 and Professor William Rappard in Geneva in September 1941), and sought an alliance with the German-speaking Landesring of Gottlieb Duttweiler.
Tannay, Switzerland, a municipality in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland
The Toblerone line is a 10-km long defensive line made of dragon's teeth that was built during the second World War between Bassins and Prangins, in the Canton of Vaud, Switzerland.
Diener's seat is one of five (out of 46) not held by members of the parties represented in the Swiss Federal Council (besides fellow Green Liberal, Markus Stadler of Uri, Werner Luginbühl of Canton of Bern and the two of the Green Party, Robert Cramer of Geneva and Luc Recordon of Vaud).
Chavannes-le-Veyron, a municipality in the district of Cossonay of the canton of Vaud, Switzerland
After the collapse of the Ancien Régime and during the period of Napoleon's Helvetic Republic, from 1798 to 1803, Yvonand was forced to join the Canton of Léman, which afterwards became Canton Vaud.