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I'm beginning to wish I'd posted this travel brochure as one post.  Well, at this point it doesn't really matter.  This is it, the last two panels.

There are two names in the La science panel, Nicolas Manuel Deutsch, and d'Albert de Haller.  Near as I can tell, Deutsch was an artist and not a scientist, though I have to admit, I was too lazy to go beyond the less than reliable Wikipedia. Haller was also an artist, but also a doctor and anatomist. 

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So, where does  the water come from?  L'historie was easy, but I had to look up Les fontaines.  I assumed it was fountains and was right, but everyone I know makes the mistake of assuming that words from languages other than English, that sound similar to words in English mean the same.  Sometimes they do, but more often than not, they don't.

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Yesterday I wrote that Gloria Lee might have been tired from all the cycling.  Keeping my earlier promise to continue with my research into her trip, I discovered that she was on an American Youth Hostel cycling trip through France, Switzerland, and Italy.  The trip lasted three weeks, excluding the voyage from the U.S. to Europe and home again, so it's a good bet that they used some sort of ground transport between countries.  Dare I mention it again?  Click on The Post War European Trip Collection in labels.....

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I hope Gloria Lee wasn't so tired and sore from all the cycling that she missed this Gothic church (?) in Bern, Switzerland.  As usual, click on The Post War European Trip Collection in labels to see more.

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I'm burning through Bern.  This section presented a bit of a problem as far as scanning goes.  I'd much rather have done each panel individually, but the publisher's choice to put a fold through the middle of the photos took that option off the table.  I don't know about anyone else, but I'd love to see the statue of the baby eating ogre.  I wonder what that says about the Swiss mindset.

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I wonder if Gloria Lee did what a lot of tourists do.  Did she take her tourist brochure and go looking for the view pictured?  It looks like there's a handrail right at the bottom of the photograph, and there is that map. Click on The Post war European Trip in labels to see more.

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It's time for a travel brochure for Bern, Berne in the local German dialect, the capital of Switzerland. Interesting, since the brochure is in French.  We know that Gloria Lee toured Europe in 1948, so while it's quite possible that it was printed pre '48, we know when she got it.  I'm not sure how I'm going to break things up, but all but one of the panels has some sort of photograph, so at least there's that.

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