La Tour-de-Peilz
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La Tour-de-Peilz is a municipality in Riviera-Pays-d'Enhaut District in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. The city is located on Lake Geneva between Montreux and Vevey (their agglomeration counting some 80,000 inhabitants).
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Notable people
- Jean Etienne Waddens was born here in 1738. He was one of the original 4 partners of the North West Company, fur traders who played a major part of the early history of Canada.* The painter Gustave Courbet lived there from 1874 until his death in December 1877.
- Prince Adalbert of Prussia died there in 1948.
- Princess Adelheid of Saxe-Meiningen died there in 1971.
- Archduchess Isabella of Austria died there in 1973.
- The cellist Dimitry Markevitch was born there in 1923.
- The novelist A.J. Cronin is buried there.
- Businessman Jean-Claude Biver, CEO of numerous watchmakers.
- Tennis player Manuela Maleeva-Fragniere resides with her husband and three children.
- The music producer Robert John "Mutt" Lange
- The singer Shania Twain
- Thomas Zoells, founder of PianoForte Foundation, Chicago, Illinois.
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