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

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.