Little Women

I'm reading Little Women for the first time (actually, I'm going through many classics for the first time right now, horray iPod and project Gutenverg!). Anyway, Lausanne makes an appearance in this book.

They had been floating about all the morning, from gloomy St. Gingolf to sunny Montreux, with the Alps of Savoy on one side, Mont St. Bernard and the Dent du Midi on the other, pretty Vevay in the valley, and Lausanne upon the hill beyond, a cloudless blue sky overhead, and the bluer lake below, dotted with the picturesque boats that look like white-winged gulls.

Even back in the day, rich children went to Switzerland to be schooled. Now Vevey is the Nestle town.