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Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (1746-1827) lived for 20 years at the Castle of Yverdon-les-Bains, where he founded his famous Institute of Education and was its Director from 1805 to 1825. At the same time, he also founded another ins...
Benno Besson
Benno Besson (1922-2006), an internationally renowned actor and theatre director from Yverdon, created countless productions in several languages in some dozen countries....
Yverdon-les-Bains Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Rousseau stayed for a month in Yverdon-les-Bains, between June and July 1762, in the family house of the banker Daniel Roguin....
Yverdon-les-Bains Fortuné-Barthélémy de Félice
This philosopher and editor was born in Rome in 1723 and lived in Yverdon-les-Bains, at 45 Rue du Lac, from 1762 until his death in 1789. He was a professor of philosophy, physics and mathematics, and a friend of the renowned scie...
Orbe Pierre Viret
Pierre Viret, who was born in Orbe in 1511, was undoubtedly Orbe’s most illustrious inhabitant. He is the only reformer of Swiss-French origin and a major figure of the Reform....
René Auberjonois
René Auberjonois is one of the most famous Swiss painters of the second half of the 19th and first half of the 20th century....
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