Mannerheim occupied the second floor, but purchased an additional room on the third floor for his literary work. The clinic of the hospital was not sufficiently equipped to deal with more serious cases of illness, so that the patient had often to be taken to a hospital in Lausanne.
In Val-Mont, Mannerheim wrote his memoirs on the basis of the texts drafted by his assistants, who lived in the neighbourhood, in Montreaux and in the village of Glion-sur-Montreaux. In those days, Mannerheim’s closest friend was Countess Gertrud d’Arco Valley, who paid frequent visits to Mannerheim from her residence in Monte Carlo and accompanied him on his trips.
Later on, the people of
Switzerland constructed a park south of Val-Mont (Parc Mannerheim) on Lake Geneva and
erected there a statue of Mannerheim.
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