After Waterloo: Reminiscences Of European Travel 1815-1819, By Major W. E Frye













































































































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The most agreeable promenades of the city are on the bastions and ramparts,
a place called La Treille and a - Page 151
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The Most Agreeable Promenades Of The City Are On The Bastions And Ramparts, A Place Called La Treille And A Garden Or Park Of Small Extent Called Plain Palais.

In this park stands on a column the bust of J.J. Rousseau. This park was the scene of

A great deal of bloodshed in 1791 on account of political disputes between the aristocratic and democratic parties, or rather between the admirers and imitators of the French Revolution and those who dreaded such innovations. This affair excited so much horror, and the recollection of it operated so powerfully on the imagination of the inhabitants, that the place became entirely abandoned as a public promenade, and avoided as a polluted spot for many years. Very likely however a sort of lustration has taken place; an oration was pronounced and the place again declared worthy of contributing to the recreation of the inhabitants. It is now become the favourite promenade of the citizens of Geneva, tho' there are still some who cannot get over their old prejudices and never set their foot in it. There is likewise a pleasant walk as far as the town of Carrouge in Savoy, which town has been lately ceded by the King of Sardinia to the republic of Geneva. In Geneva the sentiments of the inhabitants do not seem to be favourable either to the French Revolution, or to Napoleon. Their political ideas accord very much with those professed by the government party in England, and they make a great parade of them just now, as a means of courting the favour of England and of the Allied Sovereigns.

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