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Literary heyday lingers in Lausanne
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Tom Wright
International Herald Tribune
05-02-2005
In the center of the city, there's a little-noticed plaque attached to the central post office commemorating an event that made this town a Mecca for Romantic writers in the 19th century.As you stand by the crowded bus stops, jostled by commuters on the rush home from work, it takes a large dose of historical imagination to recreate the pastoral scene here in 1787 when Edward Gibbon penned the last line of his ''The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.''''The silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all ...
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