Lac Léman or Lake Geneva Seen via Shelley and Byron

Image via WikipediaIn spite of never mentioning the correct name for the Lake, Lac Lemon, Tony Perrottet writing in The New York Times Travel section puts together a lively account of his journey in the footsteps of Shelley and Byron.

Besides a really good guide to the current day Swiss shore of the lake, it is an intriguing window on the past adventures of the then the 28-year-old celebrity poet George Gordon, Lord Byron, and the struggling poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.



see Lake Geneva as Shelley and Byron Knew It

Original caption from the article "Panoramic view of Lake Geneva and the medieval Château de Chillon, which inspired Byron’s “Prisoner of Chillon.”


Why Lac Léman? Geneva is only one, small part of the lake whose shores touch the Swiss Cantons of Vaud and Valais, and of course the French side of the lake dominated by Evian-les-Bains with that water.

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