After the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, Lausanne became ( along with Geneva ) a place of refuge for French Huguenots.

The municipality was part of the old Lausanne District until it was dissolved on 31 August 2006, and it became the capital of the new district of Lausanne.

Following the Turkish War of Independence and the annulment of the Treaty of Sèvres ( 1920 ) which was replaced by the Treaty of Lausanne ( 1923 ), Trabzon again became a part of Turkey.

In May 1923 he visited continental Europe once more, journeying to the museums in Lausanne, Berne and Zürich in order to study their collections of prehistoric artefacts, and that same year became a member of the Royal Anthropological Institute.

He obtained a degree in political science in 1960 from the University of Lausanne and became that same year deputy director of the Swiss National Exhibition ( Expo 64 ).

He was born in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland and after studying law in Neuchâtel and Vienna he became attorney-at-law in Lausanne.

In 1613 Fribourg became the seat of the Bishop of Lausanne, who, after the Reformation, was forced first into Evian, and then into exile in Burgundy.

After its Lausanne processing facility closed, Kodak subcontracted the processing work to Dwayne's Photo, an independent facility in the United States, which became the world's last Kodachrome processing facility.

He became a visiting lecturer at IMEDE ( now the International Institute for Management Development ) in Lausanne, Switzerland.

When the family's fortunes improved, Rambert was able to pursue his studies for the ministry, but he was more attracted by literature, and in 1845 became professor of French literature at the academy of Lausanne, and in 1860 at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich, where he remained till 1881, when he again became professor at Lausanne.

The municipality was part of the Lausanne District until it was dissolved on 31 August 2006, and Renens became part of the new district of Ouest Lausannois.

In 2004, he started teaching at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, and became a full professor in March 2007.

The municipality was part of the Lausanne District until it was dissolved on 31 August 2006, and Belmont-sur-Lausanne became part of the new district of Lavaux-Oron.

The municipality was part of the old Lausanne District until it was dissolved on 31 August 2006, and Cheseaux-sur-Lausanne became part of the new district of Lausanne.

The municipality was part of the Lausanne District until it was dissolved on 31 August 2006, and Crissier became part of the new district of Ouest Lausannois.

The municipality was part of the Lausanne District until it was dissolved on 31 August 2006, and Epalinges became part of the new district of Lausanne.

The municipality was part of the Lausanne District until it was dissolved on 31 August 2006, and Jouxtens-Mézery became part of the new district of Lausanne.

The International Olympic Committee ( IOC ) ( French: Comité international olympique, CIO ) is an international non-governmental organization based in Lausanne, Switzerland, created by Pierre, Baron de Coubertin, on 23 June 1894 with Demetrios Vikelas as its first president.

Educated first at home, then spending four years of secondary school in Bienne, he completed his elementary studies in Lausanne.

Ottoman territorial claims were first addressed in the Treaty of Sèvres ( 1920 ) and finalized in the Treaty of Lausanne ( 1923 ).

Lausanne is the only city with a metro system ( Lausanne Metro ), which includes two lines, the first being a light metro, while the other being a fully automated metro opened in 2008.

In 1986 Nespolo had the possibility of designing the stage sets for Ferruccio Busoni ’ s opera Turandot at Connecticut Grand Opera, Stamford, the first of several theatre works he made in the following years, such as the sets and costumes for Paisiello's Don Chisciotte at the Teatro dell ' Opera di Roma in 1990 and for Donizetti's L ' elisir d ' amore, a production for the Rome Opera, the Paris Opera and the Opéra de Lausanne, Liège and Metz in 1995.

Reinhart sponsored and largely underwrote its first performance, conducted by Ernest Ansermet on 28 September 1918 at the Theatre Municipal de Lausanne.

Reinhart supported Stravinsky further when he funded a series of concerts of his chamber music in 1919: included was a suite from Histoire du soldat arranged for violin, piano and clarinet, which was first performed on 8 November 1919, in Lausanne.

In 1909 Rodolphe Archibald Reiss founded the first school of forensic science in the world: the " Institut de police scientifique " at the University of Lausanne ( UNIL ).

On June 15, 1955, at the 50th IOC Session in Paris, France, Rome beat out Lausanne, Detroit, Budapest ( being the first city of the Eastern Bloc to bid for the Olympic Games ), Brussels, Mexico City and Tokyo for the rights to host the Games.

She attended boarding school in Lausanne, Switzerland, and spent the winter of 1911 with her grandmother in Italy and on the French Riviera, where she was treated to her first taste of the Great Masters of Italian painting.

They were to have been held in London, England, United Kingdom, which won the bid in a June 1939 IOC election over Rome, Detroit, Lausanne, Athens, Budapest, Helsinki and Montreal on the first ballot.

The first projects planned are the lines Bern – Zurich, Lausanne – Geneva as well as Zurich – Winterthur.

In May 2010, SBB's first integrated network control centre opened in Lausanne ; it will supervise all of SBB's network in the French-speaking part of Switzerland.

* The now defunct Lausanne Football and Cricket Club is founded in Switzerland, the first football club to be formed outside England, although it is believed to have been primarily a cricket club.

Expatriate French voters queue in Lausanne | Lausanne, Switzerland for the first round of the French presidential election, 2007 | presidential election of 2007

Dutoit was born in Lausanne, Switzerland, studied there and graduated from the Geneva Conservatory where he won first prize in conducting, then he went to the Music Academy in Siena by the invitation of Alceo Galliera.

The first ( self expanding ) " stents " used in medical practice in 1986 by Ulrich Sigwart in Lausanne were initially called " Wallstents ".

The world renowned Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne was the first hotel school in the world.

In 1909, he was the founder of the first academic forensic science programme and of the " Institut de police scientifique " ( Institute of forensic science ) at the University of Lausanne.

A recent development whose long-term significance remains to be evaluated was the three-day visit of Oecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, a native of Imbros, ( 11-13 August 2011 ) in the course of which he met Stavros Lambrinidis, the foreign minister of Greece, apparently the first minister in office to visit the island, not officially though, since the Treaty of Lausanne ( sources: SOP ; Oecumenisme Informations no. 420, December 2011 ).

The first award was given to immunologist Maurice Arthus ( 1862-1945 ) at the University of Lausanne.

The terms of the treaty were unacceptable to the Patriarch of Jerusalem Gerald of Lausanne, who placed the city under interdict.

Lausanne () is a city in Romandy, the French-speaking part of Switzerland, and is the capital of the canton of Vaud.

The seat of the district of Lausanne, the city is situated on the shores of Lake Geneva ().

Lausanne has a population () of, making it the fifth largest city of the country, with the entire agglomeration area having 336, 400 inhabitants.

The headquarters of the International Olympic Committee are located in Lausanne – the IOC officially recognises the city as the Capitale Olympique – as are the headquarters of the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

The city which emerged from the camp was ruled by the Dukes of Savoy and the Bishop of Lausanne.

Lausanne is connected to the A1 motorway on its west side ( Geneva-Zurich axis ) and to the A9 on its north and east side ( for transit with Italy and France ); the interchange between these two motorways is on the north-west side of the city.

After its opening, Lausanne replaced Rennes as the smallest city in the world to have a full metro system.

In any case, Gerald of Lausanne, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, did not attend the ceremony, indeed, the next day the Bishop of Caesarea arrived to place the city under interdict on the patriarch's orders.

Athens was chosen as the host city during the 106th IOC Session held in Lausanne on 5 September 1997.

The vote to select the host city of the 1992 Winter Olympics was conducted on 17 October 1986, in Lausanne, Switzerland, at the 91st IOC Session.

In 1447, Sigismund's successor Frederick III commanded the city of Basel to expel the Council of Basle ; the rump council reconvened in Lausanne before dissolving itself in 1449.

It is located in the district of Ouest lausannois, and is a suburb of the city of Lausanne.

It is based in the city of Lausanne, but tours other countries.

In November 1966, she married a Lutheran man in the city of Lausanne, Switzerland, at a Greek Orthodox Church.

It is a suburb of the city of Lausanne.

It is a suburb of the city of Lausanne.

It is a suburb of the city of Lausanne.

It is a suburb of the city of Lausanne.

It is a suburb of the city of Lausanne.

It is a suburb of the city of Lausanne.