Count Aleksei Aleksandrovich Bobrinsky (1852, St. Petersburg - 1927, Grasse) was a Russian historian and nationalist politician.
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.
It included 28 researchers and as many engineers and technicians located on the Observatory sites of Nice, Grasse and Calern (Caussols).
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.
There he taught at the College which the Augustinians ran, and in 1335 he was in Grasse.
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.
By the 18th century, aromatic plants were being grown in the Grasse region of France to provide the growing perfume industry with raw materials.
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.
Its wares and antique documents can be found displayed in Musées de Grasse's International Perfume Museum in Grasse, France.
Prince Eugen of Bavaria died on 1 January 1997 at Grasse in the Alpes-Maritimes region of France.
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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.
The château in Grasse later became the hotel "Parc Palace", where the famous French actor Gérard Philipe was raised.
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Queen Victoria, a close friend, vacationed in Grasse and visited Villa Victoria.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Although bordered by several communes—Valbonne, Opio, Mouans-Sartoux and Châteauneuf-de-Grasse—it falls under the jurisdictional umbrella of Grasse.
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.
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.
#General Rochambeau and Chevalier Luzerne both urged de Grasse to decide on the Chesapeake.