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Le château en bref
Château des Crêtes overlooks Clarens, in the municipality of Montreux, at 13 Avenue des Bosquets-de-Julie. Built in 1864 for Vincent Dubochet (1796–1877), director of the Compagnie parisienne d'éclairage et de chauffage par le gaz, it was designed by the Parisian architect Eugène Laval, with the works supervised by Émile Bertolini. Its octagonal tower with machicolations, about 25 m high, received a glass roof around 1885; the exterior decoration is partly trompe-l'œil. The estate includes outbuildings, an orangery and a romantic park with a grotto and groves, evoking Jean-Jacques Rousseau. It has had several uses, including a private clinic in the 1930s and a veterinary clinic for dogs from 1944.