Le principe du Vélotour ? (Re)découvrir la ville avec un éclairage littéraire, historique, imaginaire ou botanique: balades thématiques à vélo, encadrées par un•e guide spécialisé•e et un•e accompagnant•e !
Vélotour : Frankenstein in english
Frankenstein, a Genevan Creature
The summer of 1816 is grim. An 18-year-old English tourist has a nightmare by the lake. She invents science fiction. Frankenstein is born… What a horror!
The Napoleonic Wars finally come to an end. A group of five idle young British tourists come to Geneva. The summer of 1816 is rotten on the shores of Lake Geneva; a smell of sulfur lingers in the air. Confined to their villa in Cologny, these lovers of black poetry and gothic novels read ghost stories. The challenge is launched; who among them will write the scariest story? During the stormy night that follows, Mary Shelley, 18, has a nightmare… By then conceiving the character of Dr. Frankenstein, a mad scientist from a good Genevan family who artificially brings a deformed being to life, she truly creates a new genre, science fiction. But what a horror! The famous monster strangles a child in Plainpalais!
Guidé par Cyrille Wohlschlag, historien
Cyrille a déjà réalisé avec nous les balades et brochures vélotours suivantes :
Genève et ses lieux de culte (2014)
L'esprit 1900 dans l'architecture (2010)
Genève et la Suisse (2014)
Frankenstein, créature genevoise (2016)
Les cadrans solaires (2019)
Practical information
- Difficulty of the course :
- Meet at 13h15 in the courtyard of the school of Cropettes (Caves), the departure is fixed at 13h30
- End between 4pm and 5pm in the same place
- Participants are committed to attending the meeting with a bike in good condition and equipment adapted to weather conditions
- Wearing a helmet is highly recommended
- Organizers decline all responsibility in the event of an accident
Free activity by registration, by filling in the form Do you want to come? below (bottom of this page).
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