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

The building boom in Grasse after WWII led to several grand mansions vanishing, but some of their images survive.

Six significant artists took refuge in Grasse, including Sonia Delaunay, Jean Arp and Sophie Taeuber, in 1941