The Prisoner of Chillon
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The Prisoner of Chillon is the title poem of an 1816 collection by Lord Byron. "The Prisoner of Chillon" is a 392-line narrative poem that chronicles the imprisonment of Genevois monk François Bonivar
1816 first edition title page.
The castle dungeon is under Lake Geneva.
Prisoners were chained to the massive pillars in the dungeon.
The Prisoner of Chillon by Eugène Delacroix, 1834
The Prisoner of Chillon is an 1834 oil painting by the French artist Eugène Delacroix. It depicts a scene from the 1816 poem of the same title by the British writer Lord Byron set in the sixteenth cen
Félix Nadar 1820 1910 portraits Eugène Delacroix
