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Fifty years ago, in 1971, Swiss women gained the right to vote and stand for election at federal level. The same issue, put out to consultation a few years earlier in 1959, was rejected by 66.9% and accepted by just three cantons. While women’s suffrage was achieved in most European countries at the same time, […]

Jean-Claude Hesselbarth, Le Jardin de Lily, 2006, private collection

A practice that became famous in the aristocratic salons of the 18th and 19th centuries was the musical joust, a kind of contest, a challenge of virtuosity between two musicians. Each artist showed off his or her talent as a composer and, above all, as an improviser. Beethoven, being a genius improviser, took part in […]

Discover Dance Toura series of articles featuring five musicians. What do they have in common? They create dance music, or music that makes you want to dance, and in 2021 they’re celebrating a birthday with round numbers. This first article is dedicated to Astor Piazzolla, the talented bandoneonist and Argentine composer famous for his tango […]

If I tell you: Daniel Prévost, Mélanie Laurent, Jeremy Irons, Alexandre Tharaud, Isabelle Huppert, Bruno Ganz, Adèle Haenel, Mathieu Amalric, Charlotte Rampling or Jean-Luc Bideau, what do you say??? I’ll wait a bit… But yes! Of course! Everyone knows, that’s for sure! These are personalities who have all appeared in Swiss dramas or documentaries… What […]

Pressreader is a virtual newsstand that gives you remote access to daily newspapers and magazines from all over the world, in an incredible number of languages (which reminds me of our Assimil training courses, also available online). So, depending on your mood, you’ll have access to, among other things: to beautiful interiors (South/East/West facing), to […]