Clarens, Switzerland

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Clarens around 1882

Clarens-Montreux or Clarens is a neighbourhood in the municipality of Montreux, in the canton of Vaud, in Switzerland. This neighbourhood is the biggest and most populated of the city of Montreux.

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Clarens was made famous throughout Europe by the immense success of the book La Nouvelle Héloïse by Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

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Aerial view (1964)

Notable people

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Élisée Reclus, 1905
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David Urquhart
Lived in Clarens
Died in Clarens
Buried in Clarens

Education

St George's School in Switzerland, a British international school, is in Clarens.

References

  1. "Reclus, Jean Jacques Elisée"  . Encyclopædia Britannica . Vol. 22 (11th ed.). 1911.
  2. Robinson, Gertrude (1920) David Urquhart: Some Chapters in the Life of a Victorian Knight-Errant of Justice and Liberty.
  3. "Urquhart, David"  . Dictionary of National Biography . Vol. 58. 1899.

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