Chartreuse World > Trivia
| Arnaud de Villeneuve (1240-1311) Famous physician, theologian and alchemist, he was the trainer of three popes and the author of esoteric and subversive theories. It is nevertheless a clever researcher at the origin of the brandy. It was at the Chartreuse of Scala Dei in Spain that he placed the results of his research towards 1305. Raymond Lulle (1235-1315) Famous alchemist, student of Arnaud de Villeneuve , he filed a copy of his own work at the Chartreuse of Vauvert (Paris) and it is here that the Marshal d'Estrees offered the manuscript of an elixir of long life to the Paris Chartreuse monks in 1605. |
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Amelie Nothomb mentions Chartreuse in his book "Biography of Hunger," page 164. (Albin Michel - 2004) |
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| Blake and Mortimer (Edgar P. Jacobs) Chartreuse is mentioned in the comic album "The Affair of the Necklace," page 41 (... The liquor of the good Carthusian Fathers ...) Editions Blake et Mortimer - 1991 |
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| For centuries there has been in Spain a breed of horses called the "Cartujanos". They were the horses of the Kings of Spain. However, because of bad cross-breeding this race declined and nearly disappeared. Luckily, the Chartreux monks of Jerez de la Frontiera had preciously kept a few pure-race Cartujanos. This is how this race was saved and could thrive again. |
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| Christopher Columbus (1451-1506) Few people know that Christopher Columbus planned his famous trip to India - which led to the discovery of "America" - in the Chartreux monastery of Sevilla in Spain, with the help of a Chartreux Father. Much later, Christopher Columbus made a Chartreux Father his sole legatee. |
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Rock band from Oakland (California) |
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Hunter S. Thompson |
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| Origin of the name "Chartreuse" In the Middle Ages, the village of St Pierre de Chartreuse was called "Calma Trossa" (= meadow tucked plowed or cleared) that turned into "Charme Trousse " then "Chartrousse". When Saint Bruno and his six companions settled near Chartrousse (St Pierre de Chartreuse) in 1084, they naturally take the name of the neighboring village, they transform into "Cartusia" by a rough romanization. CHARTREUSE is therefore a mixture between the Latin "Cartusia" (hence the adjective Carthusian), and the od French "Chartrousse". |
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| Eau de Cologne 4711 In the second part of the seventeenth, the family FARINA moved to Düsseldorf (Germany). Johan Anton Farina is in the business of perfumed water. One of his children, Carl Franz Maria Farina Gereon becomes a Chartreuse monk. In 1792, he offers Wilhelm Muelhens for her wedding, the formula for the distillation of a scented water, which is known today as the Eau de Cologne "4711". It should be noted that the former Carthusian Johan Anton Farina will never take part in the operation of this trademark. |
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Queen of Liquors |
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| San Antonio (Frederic Dard) Frederic Dard devotes a paragraph to the Chartreuse in his book "The keys of power are in the glovebox". (Black River - 1997) |
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The Croft Institute (Melbourne) The number one Chartreuse bar in the world,
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Getting there is part of the experience as you wander past street art covered walls and the back entrances of some of Melbourne's finest Chinese restaurants. Spread over three levels with licensed bars on the ground and second floor, there is no cooler place to chill ! |
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"Finally we came to Gatsby's own apartment, a bedroom with a bath and an Adam study, where we sat down and drank a glass of some Chartreuse he took from a cupboard in the wall."
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| Chartreuse on the Titanic! The night of the sinking of the Titanic, April 14, 1912, a dessert made with Chartreuse was on the menu for first class passengers: "Peaches in Chartreuse Jelly"  |
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Grantchester Grind (1995) is a novel written by Tom Sharpe, a British novelist "It was only after he had persuaded the Senior Tutor to have another very large pink gin and then had primed him with a sizeable helping of pâté, an excellent fillet steak and a bottle and a half of Chambertin and they were sitting with their coffee and Chartreuse, that Goodenough finally got round to the topic of the donation. He did so with an air of slight embarrassment." |
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| Mentions Chartreuse in the song 'Til The Money Runs Out (1980) of his album "Heart Attack and Vine" : Check this strange beverage that falls out from the sky Splashin' Bagdad on the Hudson in Panther Martin's eyes He's high and outside wearin' candy apple red Scarlet gave him twenty seven stitches in his head With a pint of green Chartruse ain't nothin' seems right You buy the Sunday paper on a Saturday night. |
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