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Acknowledgements

I'd like to acknowledge and highlight some sources of information about Grasse  which I find particularly useful.

  • The many publications, electronic and otherwise, of Gabriel Benalloul, about the perfume industry in Grasse.  Very few towns have as dedicated and knowledgeable a historian and industrial archeologist as he.  See, for example, two very attractive books (in French), Grasse L'usine a parfums (Lieux-Dits 2023) and La magie d'un terroir (written with André Raspati).

  • Emile Litschgy's three volumes of the history of and stories about Grasse, published by TAC, 1999, 2000 and 2002.

  • The tourist office of the town, and especially their very informative guides.  Unfortunately for anglophones, they all guide in French, although some speak English.

  • The remarkable collection of photographs  compiled by Andre Raspati , who also collaborates with Gabriel Benalloul, at grasse-vintage.over-blog.com. 

  • The intensive research carried out in 2018 by Dominique Segura on the perfume industry in Grasse, to be found at issuu.com/dominiquesegura/docs/dsegura_finalprojectreport.

  • Robert Verlaque's excellent history of the town: Grasse, Mille Ans d'Histoires 

  • Grasse's Maison du Patrimoine, a small but very interesting facility, in what itself was once a perfume factory, which explains some of the history of Grasse

But let me be clear that any mistakes or misattributions are purely my fault, and I 'd be grateful if you can let me know about them.

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Images

Images used in my blog are, unless noted in the caption, either photographs taken by me, photographic reproductions of postcards, labels and other images in my personal collection or public domain  images from sites such as Wikimedia Commons and Picryl.

 

Unless otherwise noted in the caption, all maps are based upon Open Street Map.


Exceptions and special acknowledgements in specific blogs are noted in the texts of the posts themselves.

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