stations within its borders. The primary station is , others include , , , , and . The city is also served by Les Eplatures Airport and the La Chaux-de-Fonds trolleybus system. Climate Notable people 18th C Pierre Jaquet-Droz (1721–1790), mathematician, watchmaker and machine designer Jean-Pierre Droz (1746–1823), medalist and Minter Heinrich Franz Brandt (1789–1845), a Swiss-born medal designer Louis Léopold Robert (1794–1835), painter Fritz Courvoisier (1799–1854) a watchmaker, military man and politician. 19th C Aimé Humbert-Droz (1819–1900), a Swiss politician, traveller and educator; President of the Swiss Council of States 1856 Léon Gallet (1832–1899), watchmaker, entrepreneur, philanthropist, and past family patriarch of Gallet & Co., watchmakers Elise, Countess of Edla (born Elise Friedericke Hensler) (1836–1929), a Swiss-born American actress and singer and the morganatic second wife of King Ferdinand II of Portugal Numa Droz (1844–1899), politician and Bundesrat (FDP) Paul Charles Dubois (1848–1918), a Swiss neuropathologist Oscar Tschirky (1866–1950), a Swiss-American restaurateur who was maître d'hôtel of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York, emigrated in 1883 Jules Jacot-Guillarmod (1868-1925), a Swiss physician, mountaineer and photographer Paul Ditisheim (1868-1945), a Swiss watchmaker, inventor and industrialist Theophil Friedrich Christen (1873–1920), mathematician, physician, economist and a doctor Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924), lived in La Chaux-de-Fonds during his Swiss exile Louis Kollros (1878–1959) a Swiss mathematician and academic Louis Chevrolet (1878–1941), a Swiss race car driver, co-founder of the Chevrolet Motor Car Company in the US in 1911 Suzanne Girault (1882–1973), a Swiss-born French politician, co-leader of the French Communist Party Arthur Chevrolet (1884–1946), a Swiss race car driver and automobile manufacturer Le Corbusier (1887–1965), a Swiss-French architect, designer, painter, urban planner, writer, and a pioneer of modern architecture, born here as Charles-Edouard Jeanneret. Blaise Cendrars (1887–1961), poet and novelist of the European modernist movement, born as Frédéric-Louis Sauser Theophil Spoerri (1890-1974), a Swiss writer and academic with a strong religious element Jules Humbert-Droz (1891–1971), politician, Communist International, KPS & SP Eugénie Droz (1893–1976), a Swiss romance scholar, editor, publisher and writer René Richard (1895–1982), a Swiss-born Canadian painter of semi-abstract landscapes of the Canadian wilderness, emigrated 1909 Charles Barraud (1897–1997), a Swiss painter François Barraud (1899–1934), a Swiss painter 20th C Aimé Barraud (1902–1954), a Swiss painter, part of Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) René Ferté (1903–1958), a Swiss silent movie actor in the French cinema Adrienne von Speyr (1902–1967), a Swiss Catholic physician, writer, theologian and a mystic and stigmatist. Pierre Graber (1908–2003),