Alain Jourdan

The photography of Gustave Roud

Born in the canton of Vaud, Roud is considered the premiere poetic voice of French-speaking Switzerland, stretching in the western-most part of the country from the Lower Valais in the south, to Fribourg and up into the Bernese Jura. Educated, but countrified, after receiving his degree in Classics at Lausanne he returned to the family-owned property.  Inherited from his maternal grandfather, the farm in Carrouge became his central focus.  He never married, living out his life there as a bachelor.

Apologies, I will return shortly ..