Clarens, Switzerland

Élisée Reclus, 1905

David Urquhart

Lived in Clarens

• Élisée Reclus (1830–1905) a renowned French geographer, writer and anarchist resided in Clarens from 1872 [1]
• Tchaikovsky (1840–1893) the Russian composer of the romantic period, wrote his Violin Concerto in Clarens in 1878, it is one of the best known violin concertos ever written.
• Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971), the Russian composer, lived in Clarens during the summers of 1910 to 1915. He composed his ballets The Rite of Spring and Pulcinella here.

Died in Clarens

• David Urquhart (1805–1877) a Scottish diplomat, writer and politician, MP for Stafford 1847 to 1852, introduced the Turkish bath to Britain, lived in Clarens from 1864 and is buried here. [2] [3]
• Paul Kruger (1825–1904), ex-President of the Transvaal Republic up to and including the Second Boer War, lived his final year in self-imposed exile in Clarens after escaping from South Africa, and died there. Clarens, Free State, a small town in South Africa, was named in his honor.
• Johannes van Laar (1860-1938), a Dutch chemist who is best known for the equations regarding chemical activity (Van Laar equation).

Buried in Clarens

• Sydney Chaplin (1885–1965), an English actor and the elder half-brother of Sir Charlie Chaplin. He died in Nice and was buried in Clarens.
• Oskar Kokoschka (1886–1980), an Austrian artist, poet and playwright of expressionistic portraits and landscapes, lived in Montreux from 1947 to 1980, where he died. He is buried in Clarens.
• Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977), a Russian-born novelist, poet, translator and entomologist; in 1961 he and Véra moved from the United States to Montreux, where he subsequently died. He is buried in Clarens.

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

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  Castel Châtelard in the near of Clarens
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  Clarens and mountain view

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• Rescue society on the Geneva Lake "Mon Devoir", section of Clarens