Ten authors who came to the shores of Lake Geneva for a few hours or a few years between 1754 and 1914: Voltaire, Rousseau, Germaine de Staël, François-René de Chateaubriand, Byron, Stendhal, Alexandre Dumas, Gustave Flaubert, Victor Hugo, Romain Rolland.
Exiles or refugees in Switzerland, they have taken up their pen and re-enchanted the world.
Lecture by Béatrice Peyrani, journalist and Ann Bandle,
president of the Cercle des amis du château de Coppet.
Organized in partnership with the Association pour le Développement Culturel d'Abondance and the Pays d'art et d'histoire pays d'Évian - vallée d'Abondance.
Lecture by Béatrice Peyrani, journalist and Ann Bandle,
president of the Cercle des amis du château de Coppet.
Organized in partnership with the Association pour le Développement Culturel d'Abondance and the Pays d'art et d'histoire pays d'Évian - vallée d'Abondance.
Rates
Rates
Hats off to the exit.
Opening times
Opening times
On 22 May 2025
- 18:00
Location
Location
Contact Conference: They changed the world on Lake Geneva, book presentation
Spoken languages
Spoken languages
Environment
Environment
- Mountain location
- Resort centre
- Village centre
- Village 2 km away
Access
Access
- Access from abbey square.
