CHAPTER XIII JOSEPH DE MAISTRE 105 INDEX 109 List of Illustrations 1. Lausanne Cathedral from Montbenon _Frontispiece_ FACING PAGE 2. Mont Blanc from above Morges 4 3. Morges and the Lake from the Road to Vufflens 8 4. Château de Vufflens, above Lausanne 12 5. The Spires of St. François, Lausanne 16 6. Château de Prangins 20 7. Lausanne, looking East 26 8. The Market Place, Lausanne 32 9. La Tour de Haldimand--Ouchy--Lausanne 38 10. Lausanne from the Signal 44 11. In the Forest of Sauvabelin, above Lausanne 50 12. Château de Blonay 56 13. The Rhone Valley from Mont Pelerin 62 14. A Street in St. Saphorin 68 15. The Dents du Midi and La Tour from "Entre deux Villes" 74 16. Lutry 80 17. Cully from Epesse--Autumn 86 18. Grandvaux from Cully 92 19. The Rhone Valley from Chexbres 98 20. The Church of St. Martin, Vevey 104 CHAPTER I THE RULE OF SAVOY AND BERNE Though Lausanne is so near Geneva, its history, in historical times, has been widely different from that of the neighbouring town. Geneva enjoyed a modified independence from an early date, and became completely independent early in the sixteenth century. Lausanne, until nearly 300 years later, endured the domination, first of Savoy, and subsequently of Berne. The early history is obscure and full of vexed questions as well as unfamiliar names; but the central fact is that the Counts of Savoy--they were not promoted to be Dukes of Savoy until later--took possession of the Canton of Vaud, as well as of the Chablais and the lower Valais, after the death of the last of the Zaeringen, at the beginning of the thirteenth century. For the next 300 years they exercised overlordship, limited by the charters of the towns, and, in the case of Lausanne, by the jurisdiction of the Bishop--a complicated state of things which the Swiss historical societies may be left to unravel.