Blaise Cendrars
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Frédéric-Louis Sauser, better known as Blaise Cendrars, was a Swiss-born novelist and poet who became a naturalized French citizen in 1916. He was a writer of considerable influence in the European modernist movement.
Cendrars posing in the uniform of the Légion étrangère in 1916, a few months after the amputation of his right arm
Portrait bust of Blaise Cendrars by August Suter (Paris 1911)
Blaise Cendrars, circa 1907.
La Chaux-de-Fonds
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La Chaux-de-Fonds is a Swiss city in the canton of Neuchâtel. It is located in the Jura mountains at an altitude of 1000 m, a few kilometres south of the French border. After Geneva, Lausanne and Fribourg it is the fifth largest city in the Romandie, the French-speaking part of the country, with a population of 36,915.
La Chaux de-Fonds in September 2005
City of La Chaux-de-Fonds in winter
Postcard from 1899, showing the synagogue of La Chaux-de-Fonds, in the Jewish Museum of Switzerland's collection.
La Chaux-de-Fonds and surroundings