Encyclopédies du voyage et Cartoville. Pourquoi deux guides Gallimard consacrés à Lausanne ?

Abstract

Lausanne, part of travellers’ repertoire for over three centuries, enjoys a unique location and is frequently mentioned in travel guides. Guides devoted to it have mushroomed in the past few years. It is easy to understand the interest of Publishing Houses, just as the particular topics explored in their individual guides. Yet one still wonders what benefit a publisher may draw by issuing two distinct guides of the very same place. What if the difference lay precisely in the landscape?

Keywords

• travel guides
• landscape
• reading by functions
• literary form
• Lausanne