Lausanne

Lausanne, a picturesque town on the slopes of the Jura, 1 m. from the N. shore of Lake Geneva, is the capital of the Swiss canton of Vaud; noted for its educational institutions and museums, and for its magnificent Protestant cathedral; it has little industry, but considerable trade, and is a favourite tourist resort; here took place the disputation between Calvin, Farel, and Viret, and here Gibbon wrote the “Decline and Fall.”

Population (circa 1900) given as 33,000.

Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)