The Huguenot community of Grasse was destroyed in the Wars of Religion, but Protestantism came back to Grasse from the 1870s on.

Although only founded in 1919, Fénelon’s been entangled in the history of Grasse for nearly 200 years.

Grasse's river Mourachonne runs mostly unnoticed, at least until high rainfall hits.

Family ownership of its businesses has always been key to Grasse's success in perfumes

Francis Basin, a war-time hero of the SOE, was born in Grasse and used his genuine background there to avoid arrest.

The French Revolution affected Grasse in many ways. It was a miserable period for the townspeople.

Joseph Nègre was the king of confectioners and the confectioner of kings in the nineteenth century

Thorenc became Grasse's mountain resort in the 1890s, and it still looks quite different from other villages.

One of the great pioneers of photography, Charles Nègre, was born and died in Grasse