Paul-Louis Pelet, Le Canal d’Entreroches: Histoire d’une idée (F. Rouge, 1946).
An extensive study of the history of the Canal d’Entreroches was compiled by Paul-Louis Pelet in Le Canal d’Entreroches: Histoire d’une idée (F. Rouge, 1946). The latest developments are extensively described in Pierre-André Vuitel, La fabuleuse aventure du canal d’Entreroches (Association Développement 21, 2014), and Pierre-André Vuitel, Le grand rêve du projet suisse de canal du Rhône au Rhin (Association Développement 21, 2011).
Erik van der Vleuten and Cornelis Disco, “Water wizards: reshaping wet nature and society,” History and Technology 20, no. 3 (2004): 291-309.
Maarten Praak, Pioneers of Capitalism. The Netherlands 1000-1800 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022).
Ellen Meiksins Wood, The Origin of Capitalism (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1999).
These figures were not entirely accurate, given the limits of elevation measurement tools available at the time.
Letter from C. Huygens, one of the main investors, regarding the state of the canal. Constantijn Huygens (The Hague) to Abraham Van Wickevoort (Paris), February 12, 1653, cited in Rudolf Rasch, “Duizend brieven over muziek van, aan en rond Constantijn Huygens,” ➝.
Speech of civil servant Alftred Escher, President of the National Council, delivered at its reunion on November 12, 1849," Bundesblatt no. 60, 161, ➝. Escher was a Swiss politician who promoted the construction of Switzerland´s vast railroads by private funding. He was also behind Credit Suisse, which funded the Swiss railway system and financed the Swiss electrical grid.
J.-L. Piveteau, “Le Transhelvétique: Vitalité d’un Vieux Projet,” Geocarrefour 40, no. 2 (1965), 175–85.
Raymond Gaffner, “La force de la jeunesse,” RTS Archives, July 4, 1942, ➝.
Clive H. Church and Randolph C. Head, A Concise History of Switzerland (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2013).
“Séance du mardi après-midi, 26 septembre 2006,” Bulletin des séances du Grand Conseil du Canton de Vaud no 30.
Vuitel, “Le grand rêve du projet suisse de canal du Rhône au Rhin.”