The Parc La Grange is an urban park in the city of Geneva, Switzerland.
The city park is located south of Lake Geneva at the Quai Gustave-Ador in Geneva. It has a surface of 200,000 m2 and hosts very old and tall trees, Geneva's biggest rose garden, orangeries, an alpine garden and an 18th-century villa. Also two theaters, a playground as well as a paddling pool for the children are found there.
In 1864 a meeting of the first conference of the International Committee of the Red Cross was held in the villa La Grange on the invitation of its owner, Edmond Favre (1812-1880).
William Favre (1843-1918), a son of Edmond Favre, bequested the La Grange area to the city of Geneva, in 1918. [1]
On June 10, 1969 Pope Paul VI celebrated during his visit of Geneva at La Grange a mass with some 70,000 people present in the park. [2] [3]
On June 16, 2021, a summit between US president Joe Biden and Russian president Vladimir Putin was held at the Villa La Grange. Guy Parmelin, President of Switzerland, greeted Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin wishing them a useful meeting. [4]
In the villa La Grange there are some rooms for the rich library with more than 12,000 old books which today are a precious part of the Bibliothèque de Genève .
The book collection was created by the scholar and owner of La Grange Guillaume Favre (1770-1851). [5]
A portrait of the library's creator Guillaume Favre is part of the Geneva Musée d'Art et d'Histoire collection. [6]
Geneva is the second-most populous city in Switzerland and the most populous city of Romandy, the French-speaking part of Switzerland. Situated in the south west of the country, where the Rhône exits Lake Geneva, it is the capital of the Republic and Canton of Geneva.
Horace Bénédict de Saussure was a Genevan geologist, meteorologist, physicist, mountaineer and Alpine explorer, often called the founder of alpinism and modern meteorology, and considered to be the first person to build a successful solar oven.
Marc-Auguste Pictet was a Swiss scientific journalist and experimental natural philosopher.
Erling Mandelmann was a Danish photographer. He began his career as a freelance photojournalist in the mid-1960s.
The Bibliothèque de Genève, founded in 1559, was known as Bibliothèque publique et universitaire from 1907 to 2006.
The Musée d’Art et d’Histoire is the largest art museum in Geneva, Switzerland.
The Musée Rath is an art museum in Geneva, used exclusively for temporary exhibitions. Its building is the oldest purpose-built art museum in Switzerland, and the original home of Geneva's Musée d'Art et d'Histoire.
Jules Favre was a Swiss zoologist, mycologist and geologist. He was curator at the Natural History Museum of Geneva from 1915 to 1952.
The Musée d'ethnographie de Genève is one of the most important ethnographic museums in Switzerland.
The Musée d'histoire des sciences de la Ville de Genève is a small museum in Switzerland dedicated to the history of science.
Guy Bernard Parmelin is a Swiss politician, who served as president of Switzerland in 2021, having previously served as vice president of Switzerland in 2020. A member of the Swiss People's Party (SVP/UDC), he has been a member of the Swiss Federal Council since 2016. Parmelin has served as head of the Department of Economic Affairs, Education and Research since 2019, previously heading the Department of Defence, Civil Protection and Sports between 2016 and 2018.
The Faculty of Translation and Interpreting (FTI) is a faculty of the University of Geneva in Switzerland.
The Incredulity of Saint Thomas is a 1543–1547 painting by Francesco Salviati. It was commissioned for the église Notre-Dame-de-Confort in Lyon by Thomas II de Gadagne, a Florentine counselor to Francis I of France. It is now held in the Louvre Museum and measures 275 cm by 234 cm. It is signed FRANCESCO SALVIATO FLO. OPUS (S.B.D.) and the apostle shown in three-quarter-profile is a self-portrait of Salviati.
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Geneva:
Eugénie Droz was a Swiss romance scholar, editor publisher and writer, originally from the Suisse Romande. She created the Librairie Droz, a publisher and seller of academic books, at Paris in 1924, moving the business to Geneva at the end of the war.
The 2021 Russia–United States summit was a summit meeting between United States President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin on 16 June 2021, in Geneva, Switzerland.
Guillaume Favre was a Swiss scholar, bibliophile and politician from the city of Geneva.
The Société de Lecture of Geneva is a private non-profit association founded in 1818. Over the last two centuries, it has preserved and developed an encyclopaedic library of 200,000 volumes. It is an active cultural centre of European renown. Located in the heart of the old town of Geneva, the Société de Lecture was originally an exclusive meeting place for scholars. Nowadays, it is no longer the "salon de conversation" of Geneva's patrician society, as it was during the Restoration, nor, the thinktank of political refugees and would-be revolutionaries as it was at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Today, it is a place of exchange, research, conferences and learning open to the public, mainly in the fields of literature, as well as music, science, geopolitics, history and the fine arts. In 1947, the novelist Robert de Traz defined it as "a haven of grace for the body and the mind, a flight path for the imagination, a kind of intellectual hammam, a fabulous cave where the treasures of literature accumulate".
Jacques-André Mallet ; also Mallet-Favre; 23 September 1740 – 31 January 1790) was a Genevan mathematician and astronomer.
