Winter fairy tale Previous Next Les Avants is a hamlet perched on a shelf high above Lake Geneva. At 1,050m, snow falls sparsely - if it falls at all. Things were different 100 years ago, as shown in these pictures from the album of the Dufour family from 1905/06 and 1908/09. Louis Dufour ran a hotel and used the photographs as promotional material. (Archives de Montreux, Fonds Louis Dufour, Projet Memoriav 2006) swissinfo.ch Dufour not only took the pictures, but developed them himself. The nearly 2,000 photographs in the Dufour collection were archived by Memoriav, the foundation for preserving Switzerland's audio-visual heritage. They were part of a recent exhibition on the history of sport and tourism in Montreux. swissinfo.ch swissinfo.ch swissinfo.ch swissinfo.ch swissinfo.ch swissinfo.ch swissinfo.ch swissinfo.ch swissinfo.ch swissinfo.ch swissinfo.ch swissinfo.ch swissinfo.ch swissinfo.ch Picture 1 Picture 2 Picture 3 Picture 4 Picture 5 Picture 6 Picture 7 Picture 8 Picture 9 Picture 10 Picture 11 Picture 12 Picture 13 Picture 14 Picture 15 Once upon a time, Les Avants was a winter wonderland. This content was published on February 2, 2007 - 08:56 You can find an overview of ongoing debates with our journalists here. Please join us! If you want to start a conversation about a topic raised in this article or want to report factual errors, email us at english@swissinfo.ch.
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