Charlie Chaplin's Last Home, in Switzerland

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Elaine Glusac, A Silent Film Star, at Home on the Swiss Riviera; Charlie Chaplin's old estate recently opened as a museum where his life is celebrated. New York Times, Nov 19, 2017 (in the Travel section).
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/ ... me-switzerland.html

Note:
(a) "Charlie Chaplin appeared in more than 80 films over the course of his roughly 75-year career. * * *  [a home movie showing Chaplin] in his 70s, skips playfully on the front lawn of his [Swiss] estate"
(i)
(A) Charlie Chaplin
(born Charles Spencer Chaplin to Charles Chaplin Sr [who had exactly the same legal name: Charles Spencer Chaplin] in 1889 in South London (southern part of Greater London); growing up poor, with the musician father absent and mother committed to mental asylum for psychosis from syphilis; died at 88; His career spanned more than 75 years, from [age five] until a year before his death [in 1977] )
(B) The English and French surname Chaplin means a clergyman, or more likely, a servant of clergyman. This surname and the English noun chaplain shares the same root (ultimately Latin noun feminine capella chapel), and means the same.
(C) Latin-English dictionary:
* capella (etymology)
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cappella
(ii) skip
  (vi): "to move or proceed with leaps and bounds or with a skip"
  (n): "a gait composed of alternating hops and steps"

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(b) "Chaplin's last home, the 37-acre estate, Manoir de Ban, in the small Swiss Riviera town of Corsier-sur-Vevey, about 55 miles northeast of Geneva, where he lived from 1953 until his death in 1977. "
(i)
(A) Manoir de Ban
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manoir_de_Ban
(section 2.2 Chronological list of owners: "1839: Charles Emile Henri Scherer [bought] – he had the house built [in 1840] (which later became the manor) * * * 1946: purchased by Grafton Winthrop Minot, an American diplomat, and his wife Anne de Lancey. They named the house 'Manoir de Ban' ")

Manoir de Ban is "halfway up a hill, looking down over vineyards and the scenic town of Vevey to Lake Geneva and the blue snowcapped-Alps beyond."  from the Web.
(B) I spent hours to find out why the name "de Ban" in English-websites in vain. Not even the museum explains it. My guess is it is obvious to French-speaking people. And I think it simply means what it means plainly in French.
(C) French-English dictionary:
* manoir (noun masculine; from Old French verb manoir, itself from Latin manēre, present active infinitive of maneō stay; remain): "manor"
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/manoir

The English noun manor is also derived from Old French verb manoir.
* champ (noun masculine; from Latin campus (doublet of camp) field): "field"
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/champ#French
* ban (noun masculine): "cheers"
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/french-english/ban
(D) doublet (n): "(linguistics) one of two or more different words in a language derived from the same etymological root but have different phonological forms (eg * * * pyre and fire in English)"
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/doublet
(ii) Swiss Riviera
(A) riviera (n; "Mid-18th century: from Italian, literally 'seashore' ")
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/riviera
(B) The en.wikipedia.org does not have a page for Swiss Riviera. And this is the first time I see this term.
(iii)
(A) Corsier-sur-Vevey
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corsier-sur-Vevey
(a municipality; how the French name came about: Until 1953 it was known as Corsier + The municipality was part of the Vevey District until it [District] was dissolved in 2006 [municipality is now in another district])

If you go to Google Maps and enter Corsier-sur-Vevey (no quotation marks), a list of place names will comes up, and the top one is "Corsier-sur-Vevey, Switzerland.” Pick that and you will see it lies atop (on northern border) of Veyvey.
(B) French-English dictionary:
* sur (preposition; from Latin preposition super over, on, above [whose antonym is sub): "on, above"
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sur

Accord  list of generic forms in place names in the United Kingdom and Ireland
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li ... Kingdom_and_Ireland
(table: "(Term) upon; Origin) ME [Middle English]; (Meaning) by/'upon' a river: (Example) Newcastle upon Tyne, Stratford-upon-Avon; Position) interfix")
(C) Arthur Charpentier, Name of Villages, in France. Freakonometrics, Feb 11, 2010
http://freakonometrics.hypotheses.org/2160
("For some simple geographic trend, t [sic] is possible to see where are villages having a name ending with 'sur mer' (meaning literally 'on the sea'). Obviously, we cannot find such places in the Alps. Similarly for names ending with 'Seine' they are clearly on the Seine river"(
(iv)
(A) Vevey
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vevey
("is home to the world headquarters of the food giant Nestlé, founded here in 1867 [by Henri Nestlé]. Milk chocolate was invented in Vevey by Daniel Peter [a Swiss] in 1875" in collaboration Nestlé, which Peter later joined)
(B) Vevey
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Vevey
(pronunciation)

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(c) "On an ocean liner bound for Europe with his family in 1952, Chaplin learned he was prohibited from returning to his home in the United States without submitting to an interrogation regarding his politics and morals. For several years prior, the FBI and the House Un-American Activities Committee [1938-1969] had been investigating his links to Communism — 'I am a peace-monger,' he told them — during the Hollywood purge of 1947."

in US, Charlie Chaplin "had been living as a permanent resident – but British citizen – since 1913." from the Web.

(d) "By the 18th century, Lac Léman [the French name, see (d)(ii)], aka Lake Geneva, was already a haven for travelers who found respite between their tours of the great European capitals in slow walks along the shore, especially the 19-mile stretch between Lausanne and Montreux known as the Swiss Riviera.  In the early 20th century, Clinique La Prairie spa began dispensing rejuvenating treatments here * * * The snow-capped Alps of France and Switzerland that rose up beyond the far shore of the placid lake provided the mountainous backdrop that Chaplin could see from his front yard at Manoir de Ban, a 13-minute uphill bus ride from lakeside Vevey."
(i) Geneva, Lausanne and Vevey are all on the shore of Lake Geneva, which curves. The order of the three cities from Lake Geneva outlet (at the southwestern corner of the lake) is Geneva-Lausanne-Vevey, with Vevey 12-mile air distance east of Lausanne.
(ii) Lake Geneva
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Geneva
(a lake on the north side of the Alps, shared between Switzerland and France; on the course of the Rhône [river]; section 1 Name)
(iii) Clinique La Prairie
laprairie.ch/history
("The history of Clinique La Prairie harks back to 1931 when Professor Paul Niehans, a brilliant science graduate from the Zurich University, first administered fresh animal cells to patients suffering from various medical conditions. The results were outstanding")
(A) At the beginning, it was indeed a clinic dispensing medical treatment (quack medicine, as we look back): human immunity will kill the animal cells immediately.
(B) Clinique La Prairie is located at the village of Clarens, three miles southeast of Vevey, also on lakefront of Lake Geneva.

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(e) "The neoclassical home’s first floor has been faithfully restored as it appeared in Chaplin's day down to the family furniture, including the cozy, jacquard-print sofa * * * Chaplin served as an actor, writer, director and composer on many of his films, and original scores, letters and scripts lie on his desk as if he'd just left the room. 'Chaplin had a lifelong compulsion to do everything himself, even down to wanting to play every role in each of his films,' wrote the film critic and author David Robinson in the forward to 'My Autobiography.' [Chaplin's `964 memoir] * * * In a former bedroom, the home movies made by his fourth and last wife, Oona, show a joyful Chaplin waltzing with one of his children – he had eight with Oona, 36 years his junior — in his arms, or lying on the floor mimicking the thumb-sucking infant beside him."
(i) Jacquard
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacquard
(is a French surname. Notable people with the surname include: Joseph Marie Jacquard (1752-1834), French weaver and inventor of the Jacquard loom)
(ii) Oona O'Neill
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oona_O%27Neill
(1925 – 1991; section 1.2 Marriage to Chaplin (1943–1977) )

There is no need to read section 1.2 (which does say how they met), which is provided to note the duration of the marriage.
(iii) Oona
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oona

is an Anglicisation of "lamb" in Gaelic.

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(f) "A fan and friend, Michael Jackson is also here in an exhibit suggesting Chaplin's dance moves in 'Modern Times' inspired the singer's signature moonwalk. * * * In a reproduction of the Yukon cabin, poised on a fulcrum, used in the 1925 film 'The Gold Rush,' I shuffled side to side to tilt the set as it had done in the movie. * * * [Chaplin's] movies like 'The Great Dictator' and 'The Kid.' "
(i)
(A) Modern Times (film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Times_(film)
(1936; in which his iconic Little Tramp ['Charlot in several languages': en.wikipedia.org] character struggles to survive in the modern, industrialized world)
(B) Charlie Chaplin Sings Nonsense Song (Titine) - Modern Times. YouTube.com, published by TheChaplinFilms on May 17, 2017.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FIt4g9fgcg
(ii) The Gold Rush
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gold_Rush
("Overnight, another blizzard blows the cabin half over a cliff right next to [Big] Jim's gold deposit. The next morning the cabin rocks dangerously over the cliff edge while the two try to escape. At last Jim manages to get out and pull the Prospector to safety right when the cabin falls down the chasm")
(iii) The Great Dictator
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Dictator
(1940)
(iv) The Kid (1921 film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kid_(1921_film)

(g) "the family maintains tight control of Chaplin's image — for example, the only place to buy a postcard depicting him hereabouts is at the Chaplin's World gift shop * * * A cafe down the street [from the museum] bears his French pet name, Le Charlot
(i) hereabouts (adv) "in this vicinity"
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hereabouts
(ii) Charlot (proper noun/name; from Charlie +‎ -ot, after Charlie Chaplin)
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Charlot