Memorials & tributes

Type

School / place of learning

Address

Rue de la Gare 33, 1820 Montreux

Not open to visitors

The Collège de Montreux, on the Rue de la Gare, still takes in secondary-school pupils. For the history of song it matters because a director and his son left their mark there: Camille Dudan ran it from 1926 to 1932, and his son Pierre, the future author of “Clopin-Clopant” and “Café au lait au lit”, was schooled there. It was there, with his father and his French teacher, the writer Maurice Budry, that young Pierre took to the words that would make his Paris career.

Related artists :Pierre DudanCarlo BollerJean Villard-GillesPierre Joost