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Louise Anne Bouchard, originally from Quebec, is an author, screenwriter and photographer, [1] of Canadian and Swiss citizenship. Her first novel was Cette fois, Jeanne... (1987). [2]
Lake Geneva is a deep lake on the north side of the Alps, shared between Switzerland and France. It is one of the largest lakes in Western Europe and the largest on the course of the Rhône. Sixty per cent of the lake belongs to Switzerland and forty per cent to France.
The 2000 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were presented by Adrienne Clarkson, Governor General of Canada, and Jean-Louis Roux, Chairman of the Canada Council for the Arts, on November 14 at Rideau Hall.
Vaud, more formally the canton of Vaud, is one of the 26 cantons forming the Swiss Confederation. It is composed of ten districts and its capital city is Lausanne. Its coat of arms bears the motto "Liberté et patrie" on a white-green bicolour.
Valérie Kaprisky is a French actress.
Geneva railway station, also known as Geneva Cornavin railway station, is Geneva's main train station, located in the centre of the city. The immediate area surrounding it is known as Cornavin; both names can be used interchangeably.
Antoine Fabre d'Olivet was a French author, poet and composer whose Biblical and philosophical hermeneutics influenced many occultists, such as Eliphas Lévi, Gérard Encausse ("Papus") and Édouard Schuré.
Noël Mathieu better known under his pseudonym Pierre Emmanuel, was a French poet of Christian inspiration.
Donatien Alphonse François de Sade, best known as the Marquis de Sade, was a French aristocrat, revolutionary and author of philosophical and sadomasochistic novels exploring such controversial subjects as rape, bestiality and necrophilia. His works evidence a philosophical mind advocating a materialist philosophy in which Nature dictates absolute freedom, unrestrained by morality, religion or law, with the pursuit of personal pleasure as its foremost principle. Besides novels, he wrote philosophical tracts, novellas, short stories, and a number of plays. Publication, dissemination, and translation of his works have long been hindered by censorship: not until 1983 were his works allowed unfettered distribution in the UK, for instance.
Sébastien Lapaque is a French writer.
Maurice Chappaz was a French-language Swiss poet and writer. He published more than 40 books and won several literary awards, including his country's most notable award, the Grand Prix Schiller, in 1997.
L'effet caribou is a humorous television series broadcasting on three private Swiss TV channels: La Télé, Léman Bleu and 20minutes.ch
Patrick Hivon is a Canadian actor from Montreal, Quebec. He was a Jutra Award nominee for Best Supporting Actor at the 17th Jutra Awards in 2015 for Guardian Angel , a Gémeaux Award nominee as Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series in 2015 for Nouvelle adresse, a Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best Supporting Actor at the 4th Canadian Screen Awards in 2016 for Ville-Marie, and a Prix Iris nominee for Best Actor at the 21st Quebec Cinema Awards in 2019 for We Are Gold .
The prix Contrepoint is a French literary award established in 1971 by a group of young French novelists and journalists. Each year a French-speaking novelist is selected.
Doris Jakubec-Vodoz is a francophone Swiss professor of Suisse romande literature. She served between 1981 and 2003 as director of the "Centre des littératures en Suisse romande" at the University of Lausanne. She also has been or is a visiting professor at the Universities of Montréal, Stanford and Albuquerque, and has had international university lectureships at Tel Aviv and Peking Universities.
Coppet railway station is a railway station in the municipality of Coppet, in the Swiss canton of Vaud. It is an intermediate stop on the standard gauge Lausanne–Geneva line of Swiss Federal Railways.
Pierre Chappuis was a Swiss writer, poet, and literary critic.
Marie-Louise Colomb, best known by her pseudonym Catherine Colomb, was a Swiss writer, considered one of the most important 19th-century novelists in French-speaking Switzerland.
Pierre Philippe Naftule was a Swiss writer, producer and theatre director.
Catherine Quicquat was a French woman who was executed for witchcraft.
