Corot's room. This Castle wasn't like Chillon. Chillon was all Medieval castle. Gruyeres castle had been updated in the 1800s so it was a bit more modern. In another of many coincidences on this trip. The bust at the far end of the room is Sisi, Empress Elizabeth of Austria, who built Achilleion Palace that we visited on the cruise.

Danielle Bovy asked his painter friends to decorate the 18th century panels. The room is named after Camille Corot, the famous French artist who painted the four medallion landscapes. Barthelemy Menn painted two other medallions and H. Saltzmann painted one other . In the window the bronze medallion on the left represents D. Bovy and Antoine Bovy, on the right, John Bovy by Hugues Bovy.

The allegorical females as well as the two jesters by the mirror are painted by H. Baron.

The Room of the Counts. Dedicated to the last counts of the Gruyeres. The bed is a 15th century canopy bed.

Flemish tapestries (1530) and a giant fireplace.

The Savoyard cross surrounded by the collar of the order of the Annonciade.

The Room of the Beautiful Lucy. According to legend, Lucy was a beautiful young woman of simple origins loved by the Count Jean II (1514 - 1539). An ancient tradition holds that a room of the castle is dedicated to her tapestries. This tapestry is Alexander's victory based on the cartoon by Charles le Brun, about 1700.

In the corner of this room. Bovy and his friends wrote on the walls. It was hard to get a picture. They put plexiglass over their scribblings to protect them.