Plainpalais

Plainpalais is a neighbourhood in Geneva, Switzerland, and a former municipality of the Canton of Geneva.[1] It is mentioned in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein in chapter 6, volume 1[2].

The Plainpalais, 2011.

Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges' ashes are buried in the cemetery of Plainpalais.

The Plaine de Plainpalais is a large public square (78 135 square metres).

Plainpalais is shown bottom left in this imaginative drawing by Matthias Quad, or the workshop of Franz Hogenberg, around 1603, illustrating the failed surprise attack of 12 December 1602 by the Duke of Savoy to take Geneva. Invaders are pictured crossing the moat in the center left while their reinforcements are entering Plainpalais at the bottom. A column of defenders is in the center, headed toward the Savoyards. Lake Léman is at center top.

References
  1. "Plainpalais | Geneva.info". Retrieved November 16, 2014.
  2. Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft (1994). Frankenstein: Or, the Modern Prometheus, The Pennyroyal Edition. University of California Press. pp. 68, 71, 72. ISBN 9780520201798.

See also
  • Geneva massacre of 9 November 1932

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