{"id":40456,"date":"2025-06-19T11:15:45","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T09:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bcu-lausanne.ch\/are-you-exotic\/"},"modified":"2025-06-19T11:15:48","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T09:15:48","slug":"are-you-exotic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bcu-lausanne.ch\/en\/en-ce-moment-en\/are-you-exotic\/","title":{"rendered":"Are you \u201cExotic?\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Exotic: from the Greek \u201cex\u00f4\u201d outside, and foreign \u201cex\u00f4tikos\u201d.<\/p>\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n<p>From the <sup>17th<\/sup> century onwards, Western society became passionate about travel, discovering colonial fruits and vegetables, tomatoes, corn, potatoes and chocolate.  <\/p>\n\n<p>The <sup>18th<\/sup> century brought the Thousand and One Nights, the Persian Letters and Bougainville&#8217;s voyages to France. Asian fabrics and motifs (Indians) were adored. Mme de Sta\u00ebl&#8217;s bedroom at Coppet, home of Mme R\u00e9camier, is decorated with magnificent Chinese wallpaper.  <\/p>\n\n<p>The museums of the Palais de Rumine present a joint, interdisciplinary exhibition Exotic? How do we define exoticism in Switzerland and elsewhere?   <\/p>\n\n<p>The exhibition shows that in the <sup>18th<\/sup> century it was the Alps and the costumes of the herdsmen that were exotic!  <\/p>\n\n<p>Before the pandemic, the most exotic destinations were Grenada, Fiji, Micronesia and Mongolia.  <\/p>\n\n<p>And what about today? It&#8217;s become very trendy to meet in small groups under a tree in a park for a picnic, or to go for a bike ride between Chavannes and Lutry. 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