Un voyage à travers la Suisse en 1608
Consommation d’alcool, bains publics, mode, rapport à la mort: les étonnantes observations de Thomas Coryate (1577 - 1617), explorateur anglais qui visita la Suisse au début du XVIIe siècle.
Me thinks it had beene much better to have reserved the arrow with which [Tell] shot through the tyrant, then the sword that he wore.
A man may live as cheape here as in any City of Switzerland or Germanie.
Men and women bathing themselves together naked from the middle upward in one bathe: whereof some of the women were wives (as I was told) and the men partly bachelers, and partly married men, but not the husbands of the same women.
I observed many women of this Citie to be as beautifull and faire as any I saw in all my travels.