Brunswick Monument
Square des Alpes, Quai du Mont-Blanc, Geneva 1201 - Switzerland
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Charles d’Este-Guelph, Duke of Brunswick, linguist, outstanding horseman, musician, eccentric and paranoiac was born in 1804. Twenty-six years later, having been dethroned and exiled, he took refuge in Paris. He eventually moved to Geneva, where he spent the last three years of his life, before dying in 1873. His bequest to the city specified that it was to build “a mausoleum in an eminent and worthy location, executed according to the established concept by the finest artists of the time, without consideration of cost”. His monument is an exact replica of the Scaligeri family tomb in Verona, Italy, a work of the 14th century.
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