William Augustus Brevoort Coolidge

“ It forms an administrative district of the canton of Fribourg, its population in 1900 being 23,111, mainly French-speaking and Romanists. From Montbovon (11 m. by rail from Bulle) there are mountain railways leading S.W. past Les Avants to Montreux (14 m.) , and E. up the Sarine valley past Château d’Oex to Saanen or Gessenay (14 m.) , and by a tunnel below a low pass to the Simme valley and Spiez on the Lake of Thun. The modern capital of the district is the small town of Bulle [Ger. Boll] , with a 13th-century castle and in 1900 3330 inhabitants, French-speaking and Romanists. ”

“ K. V. von Bonstetten, Briefe über ein schweiz. Hirtenland (1781) (Eng. trans., 1784) ; J. Reichlen, La Gruyère illustrée (1890) , seq.; H. Raemy, La Gruyère (1867) ; and Les Alpes fribourgeoises, by many authors (Lausanne, 1908) . ”