The Route Napoleon was conceived by a remarkable priest to promote tourism

Grasse's centre boasts only one hotel, compared twenty or more around the town in the Thirties

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

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

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

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