Grasse's population grew through successive waves of immigrants from Italy

Albert Rutherston and Gerard Chowne lived and painted in Grasse, between 1910 and 1914

Grasse was a significant participant in the nineteenth century ice trade.

Grasse is linked to Guy de Maupassant, but mostly posthumously

Grasse was an industrial and factory town until the second World War, and the signs are still there.

If Grasse is the perfume capital of the world, Kannauj is the perfume capital of India.

Grasse lost Fragonard's great sequence, The Progress of Love, in 1898, never to return.

Grasse was badly affected by the Great War, 1914-1918, like all French towns.

As the owner of Grasse's largest business 150 years ago, Léon Chiris was also an important national politician