Grande Chartreuse

In 1764, the monks expanded their distillery for the first time to meet the demand of their popular Elixir Végétal de la Grande Chartreuse.

[2] The massive collection of 400 manuscripts and 3,500 printed documents (including 300 incunabula) taken from the Grande Chartreuse during the French Revolution is curated and protected in the bibliothèque d’étude et du patrimoine of Grenoble, and an online scanned version of the documents is available on the digital platform of the library, Pagella, for researchers and interested people alike.

[5] While some monks found refuge in Italy until 1929,[6] others settled in the Tarragona region of Spain and relaunched the monastery's famous liqueur-producing activity.

[8] English poet Matthew Arnold wrote one of his finest poems, "Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse", while briefly staying at the monastery around 1850.

The following prior are listed in the Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie Ecclésiastique: Media related to Grande-Chartreuse monastery at Wikimedia Commons

Grande Chartreuse
The monks being forced out of the monastery in April 1903
Grande Chartreuse is situated in a remote mountain valley.