La Grande Enquête

La Grande Enquête is a heritage and research project exploring life in French-speaking Switzerland (Romandy) at the start of the 20th century. The site presents the results of a linguistic survey conducted between 1900 and 1911, gathering patois vocabulary, local customs, and testimonies from the population of the time. It covers the material realities of daily life, the evolution of the patois language into modern regional French, and the witnesses who preserved this heritage. Visitors can explore the project's history, its questionnaires, correspondents and findings, and are invited to contribute information or propose new questions, making it an evolving, participatory archive of Romandy's linguistic and cultural past.