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One simple reason for The Three Swans:
The wing of the Montreux-Palace known as "le Cygne" was built much earlier than what now is considered the principal building. A lower intermediate structure, containing the main restaurant and the conciergerie, unites the two. From 1961 on my parents lived in a suite that occupied most of the top floor of the Cygne, which also housed a semi-cellar folksy eatery of a type called "Carnotzet." Swans are a prominent fixture on Lake Geneva, which the residents of its Montreux end prefer to call Lac Léman, and which is also the locus of the Château de Chillon. A famous hôtel of similar style and vintage as the Cygne exists in the neighboring town of Vevey. It, too, has housed many well known guests, among them our dear friend Vivi Crespi. We had occasion to visit this hotel fairly frequently. Its name is "les Trois Couronnes (The Three Crowns)." VN telescoped the two names into "Les Trois Cygnes."
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The wing of the Montreux-Palace known as "le Cygne" was built much earlier than what now is considered the principal building. A lower intermediate structure, containing the main restaurant and the conciergerie, unites the two. From 1961 on my parents lived in a suite that occupied most of the top floor of the Cygne, which also housed a semi-cellar folksy eatery of a type called "Carnotzet." Swans are a prominent fixture on Lake Geneva, which the residents of its Montreux end prefer to call Lac Léman, and which is also the locus of the Château de Chillon. A famous hôtel of similar style and vintage as the Cygne exists in the neighboring town of Vevey. It, too, has housed many well known guests, among them our dear friend Vivi Crespi. We had occasion to visit this hotel fairly frequently. Its name is "les Trois Couronnes (The Three Crowns)." VN telescoped the two names into "Les Trois Cygnes."
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