The festival, which takes place on the shores of Lake Geneva, has featured the likes of Miles Davis and Santana.

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Thus is the cinema reborn, the natural order restored and thus, in the first image of this new cinema, Cordelia (Molly Ringwald) dies, her body stretched on a boulder by the shores of Lake Geneva, as, with his back to her, Lear (Burgess Meredith) beholds the wonders of nature that have made it so.

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But even as the darkened shores of Lake Geneva roll past, my phone rings with people keen to talk about the new EU jobs.

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As usual, the Euro-enthusiastic French-speakers, who account for only 17% of Swiss citizens, were keen: 80% of the canton of Vaud, next to Lake Geneva, for example, backed the deal.

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The man overseeing this sea change is Michel Bonnefous, a school chum of Bertarelli's who still climbs mountains with the billionaire and skims across Lake Geneva on his powerful 12-meter catamaran ("It's a mountain of sail, " he says, with a touch of awe).

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The man overseeing this sea change is Michel Bonnefous, a school chum of Bertarelli's who still climbs mountains with the billionaire and skims across Lake Geneva on his powerful 40-foot catamaran ("It's a mountain of sail, " he says, with a touch of awe).

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One quarter of the Hotel des Bergues' rooms are suites, with spacious sitting rooms and windows that look out onto Lake Geneva and the landmark Jet D'Eau, a 140-meter-high geyser of water that is reputed to be Europe's tallest fountain.

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Prince first played Montreux in 2007, followed by one of his famed after-show parties at 03:00 in a late-night jazz cafe alongside Lake Geneva.

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