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unusual facts about Châteauneuf-de-Grasse



Aleksei Aleksandrovich Bobrinsky

Count Aleksei Aleksandrovich Bobrinsky (1852, St. Petersburg - 1927, Grasse) was a Russian historian and nationalist politician.

Alexandre Francois Auguste de Grasse

On December 12, 1796, the Comte de Grasse, along with seven other men, was issued a patent by Hyman Long that made him a Deputy Grand Inspector General.

Alice Charlotte von Rothschild

The château in Grasse later became the hotel "Parc Palace", where the famous French actor Gérard Philipe was raised.

Queen Victoria, a close friend, vacationed in Grasse and visited Villa Victoria.

Ancient Diocese of Grasse

Bishops of Grasse worthy of mention are: Cardinal Agostino Trivulzio (1537-1648); the poet Antoine Godeau (1636–53), one of the most celebrated habitués of the Hôtel de Rambouillet, where he was nicknamed "Julia's dwarf" on account of his small stature.

Andon, Alpes-Maritimes

The village was originally a lordship of Grasse, then of Boniface de Castellane before depending the Count of Provence in 1235 who passed it to Romée de Villeneuve.

Antoine Godeau

By a Bull of Pope Innocent X he was empowered to unite the Dioceses of Grasse and Vence under his administration, but seeing the dissatisfaction of the clergy of the latter diocese, he relinquished the former and established himself at Vence.

Armand Séguin

He died in Châteauneuf-du-Faou at the age of 34, a destitute alcoholic who was suffering from tuberculosis.

Auribeau-sur-Siagne

In an agreement dated 5 June 1497 the Bishop of Grasse, Jean-André Grimaldi requested the people of the dioceses of Albenga and Ventimiglia to rebuild those houses within the village boundary.

Brian Wildsmith

From 1971 Wildsmith lived in France at Castellaras, a hill village near Cannes and Grasse, with his wife, Aurelie, and their four children, Clare, Rebecca, Anna and Simon.

Caswell-Massey

It is one of the oldest continuously operating American retail company and the oldest soap and toiletries making company in the United States, as well fourth oldest perfumery after Farina gegenüber of Cologne, Germany; Floris of London in London, England and Galimard of Grasse, France.

Centre de recherches en géodynamique et astrométrie

It included 28 researchers and as many engineers and technicians located on the Observatory sites of Nice, Grasse and Calern (Caussols).

Château de Châteauneuf

The Château de Châteauneuf, also known as the Château de Châteauneuf-en-Auxois, is a 15th-century fortress in the commune of Châteauneuf, 43 km from Dijon, in the Côte-d'Or département of France.

Châteauneuf-du-Pape

Before wine critic Robert M. Parker, Jr. began promoting them, the wines of Châteauneuf were considered rustic and of limited appeal.

In gratitude, the Châteauneuf Winemakers Union pushed for his becoming an honorary citizen of the village.

Dark Avenues

Dark Avenues (or Dark Alleys, Russian: «Тёмные аллеи», Tyomnyye allei) is a collection of short stories by a Nobel Prize-winning Russian author Ivan Bunin written in 1937–1944, mostly in Grasse, France, first 11 novellas of which were published in New York, United States, in 1943.

Dionigi di Borgo San Sepolcro

There he taught at the College which the Augustinians ran, and in 1335 he was in Grasse.

Evernia prunastri

Oakmoss is commercially harvested in countries of South-Central Europe and usually exported to the Grasse region of France where its fragrant compounds are extracted as Oakmoss absolutes and extracts.

Gondi family

In the mid-19th century members of the Gondi family owned a stake in the notable Châteauneuf-du-Pape wine estate Château Fortia.

History of perfume

By the 18th century, aromatic plants were being grown in the Grasse region of France to provide the growing perfume industry with raw materials.

Hugh of Châteauneuf

Born at Châteauneuf-sur-Isère, France, Hugh showed piety and theological facility from a young age.

Joan of Valois, Queen of Navarre

Joan of France, also known as Joan or Joanna of Valois (June 24, 1343, Châteauneuf-sur-Loire – November 3, 1373, Évreux), was the daughter of John II of France (called The Good), and his first wife, Bonne of Luxembourg.

Maurice Genevoix

Born on 29 November 1890 at Decize, Nièvre as Maurice-Charles-Louis-Genevoix, Genevoix spent his childhood in Châteauneuf-sur-Loire.

Michel Sima

Seriously ill, he's back in France in 1945, and spends months and months recovering in Cannes, at his friend's Dor de la Souchère and in Grasse.

Parfums Lubin

Its wares and antique documents can be found displayed in Musées de Grasse's International Perfume Museum in Grasse, France.

Plascassier

Although bordered by several communes—Valbonne, Opio, Mouans-Sartoux and Châteauneuf-de-Grasse—it falls under the jurisdictional umbrella of Grasse.

Prince Eugen of Bavaria

Prince Eugen of Bavaria died on 1 January 1997 at Grasse in the Alpes-Maritimes region of France.

Randon

Châteauneuf-de-Randon, commune in the Lozère department in southern France

Roussanne

In the 1980s, California winemaker Randall Grahm of Bonny Doon Vineyard smuggled cuttings of Roussanne that he reportedly got from a vineyard in Châteauneuf-du-Pape.

Sisowath Monipong

He began his studies in Cambodia, before being sent to France, in Grasse then in Nice, from 1927, under the control of the Governor of Indochina, François Marius Baudoin.

Urfé

Honoré d'Urfé, marquis de Valromey, comte de Châteauneuf, a French novelist and miscellaneous writer

Veraison

Fête de la Véraison is a medieval festival held in the famous winemaking village of Châteauneuf-du-Pape.

William John Leech

Leech would travel throughout Europe and eventually settled in England in 1919, with frequent visits to the South of France, to Marseilles, Grasse and Cagnes-sur-Mer.

Yorktown campaign

#General Rochambeau and Chevalier Luzerne both urged de Grasse to decide on the Chesapeake.


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