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  1. A fortress on an island rock at the eastern
  2. end of Lake Geneva, Switzerland, dating from
  3. the 8th century. The 16th-century Genovese
  4. republican and patriot, Francois Bonward
  5. (Bonnivard) (1496-c.1570), commemorated by
  6. the English poet Byron, was imprisoned here
  7. 1530-36.
  8.