Celebrities in Talloires and Abbaye de Talloires
The chemist Louis Berthollet (who discovered among others the composition of the ammonia water and to whom we owe our bleach) was born to Talloires in 1748.
Napoléon III and empress Eugénie during a visit of the region after the fastening of Savoy with France in 1860 were seized at once with admiration of the beauty of the bay.
Mark Twain, famous american novelist, visited Lake Annecy in 1891 and stayed in Abbaye de Talloires during his visit. He described his impressions in Mark Twain's Travel Letters from 1891-1892.
The painters such as , Paul Cézanne who stayed in the Abbey between 1895 and 1896 and painted here " Lake Annecy " at present in Courtauld Institute of London, Albert Besnard, Chabas, Mathey, Coppier, made of Talloires a world-famous site. The Bay of Talloires also enchanted Taine (buried on the Roc de Cher à Menthon), Ernest Renan, Lamartine... and so by the attendance of personalities became a center of exchange of ideas.
Gabriel Lippman, French physicist, inventor of the color photo, realized his first color cliché in the cloister of the Abbey in 1902.
Composers such as César Franck and Gabriel Fauré, politicians as Winston Churchill and Président Nixon, honored this magic place of their presence.
Jean Reno
, the famous French film actor, a shareholder of the Abbey of Talloires, loves to relax here during his shootings from time to time.
Mark Twain
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