Chillon Castle
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Chillon Castle is a medieval island castle located on Lake Geneva, south of Veytaux in the Swiss canton of Vaud. It is situated at the eastern end of the lake, on the narrow shore between Montreux and
Chillon Castle at nightfall with the Dents du Midi in the background
The Prisoner of Chillon by Eugène Delacroix
Chromolithograph of Chillon by Helga von Cramm with a Havergal prayer, hymn or poem, c. 1878.
Chillon Castle and Motorway
François Bonivard
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François Bonivard was a nobleman, ecclesiastic, historian, and Geneva patriot at the time of the Republic of Geneva. His life was the inspiration for Lord Byron's 1816 poem The Prisoner of Chillon. He
Chillon Castle
…Wales at a later date. The counts and dukes of Savoy used the castle as a residence but also to house prisoners. Its most famous prisoner was probably François de Bonivard, a Genevois monk, prior of St. Victor in Geneva and historian, who was imprisoned there for six years in 1530. In 1536, the castle was captured by a…
The delivery of Bonivard, painting by Franck-Édouard Lossier (1898)