Special envoy to Vevey (Switzerland)
This December 25, it is 44 years since Charlie Chaplin died in Switzerland, on Christmas Day, in his sleep.
Above Lake Geneva, in the cemetery of Corsier-sur-Vevey, beautiful flowers adorn the grave where he rests next to his wife Oona.
Next to it, the burial place of actor James Mason seems abandoned.
This Christmas morning, nobody is contemplating, but a little higher, at the manor of Ban, where Chaplin and his family lived from 1952 to 2008, it is the excitement.
Dozens of Swiss families and a handful of foreign tourists who have been able to cross the border with a vaccine pass and negative PCR test are discovering the place.
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Transformed into a museum site in 2016, the family property, renamed Chaplin's World, is carried by excellent word of mouth.
Designed by the museographer Yves Durand, the scenographer François Confino, the Compagnie des Alpes (Grévin), Serge Bromberg for the audiovisual production without forgetting Marin Karmitz then his son Nathanaël…
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