Chillon

We passed near the castle of Chillon, which is singularly situated, being built on some rocks in the lake, by which it is completely surrounded.

A tour through some parts of France, Switzerland, Savoy, Germany and Belgium Richard Boyle Bernard

Marbois 'representations, and Luzerne's prepossessions against our trade with their colonies, occasioned him, as minister of that department, not only to reverse the ordinance, but to recall Chillon and send out

Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3 Thomas Jefferson 1784

This is what nature has done; as for men, they have hugely painted the lakeward wall of the castle with the arms of the Canton Vaud, which are nearly as ugly as the arms of Ohio; and they have wrought into the roof of the tallest tower with tiles of a paler tint the word "Chillon," so that you cannot possibly mistake it for any other castle.

A Little Swiss Sojourn William Dean Howells 1878

'Chillon's Viennese waltz was played by the band: played a second time, special request, conveyed to the leader by Prince Ferdinand.

The Amazing Marriage — Complete George Meredith 1868

'Chillon's Viennese waltz was played by the band: played a second time, special request, conveyed to the leader by Prince Ferdinand.

The Amazing Marriage — Volume 2 George Meredith 1868

'Chillon's Viennese waltz was played by the band: played a second time, special request, conveyed to the leader by Prince Ferdinand.

Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

The pair found a common passion for Gothic literature and visited the Château de Chillon, about which Byron wrote "The Prisoner of Chillon."

Byron in Paradise J.S. Tennant 2011

Le château de Chillon (détail), 1874 huile sur toile 86 x 112,5 cm

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Le château de Chillon (détail), 1874 huile sur toile 86 x 112,5 cm

Byron and Courbet on Chillon 2009

And his late, superb "Le Chateau de Chillon" 1874, a Swiss castle famed for its many political prisoners that Courbet may have also studied in photographs, offers a haunting lesson in the formal and evocative beauty entwined in the landscape.

The Rise and Fall of a Master Mary Tompkins Lewis 2011