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François Bonivard

François Bonivard

Politician
François Bonivard was a nobleman, ecclesiastic, historian, and Geneva patriot at the time of the Republic of Geneva. His life was the inspiration for Lord Byron's 1816 poem The Prisoner of Chillon. He was a partisan of the Protestant Reformation,... Wikipedia
Born: 1493, Seyssel, France
Died: 1570 (age 77 years), Geneva, Switzerland