Life in ancien regime Vaud. (domination of Protestant Clerics in pre-revolution Pays de Vaud)

History Today | April 1, 1998| | Copyright

Vivienne Larminie explores the history of the Pays de Vaud, showing how resistance to Protestant reform gave rise to a distinctive culture and, in 1798, a revolt against foreign rule.

For the Enlightenment luminaries like Voltaire, Rousseau, Edward Gibbon and Madame de Stael who made it their temporary home, and for other foreigners like James Boswell who passed through on the Grand Tour, the Pays de Vaud, in what is now western Switzerland, was a haven of freedom and of agreeable literary society. Gibbon, who spent nearly five years there as a youth, reckoned that he ...

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