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	Chartreuse - Economic activities of the Chartreuse monks since 1084
		Initially, a large area of the dense forest surrounding their tiny settlement was cleared and the space was used to grow crops and to graze a small herd of cattle that supplied the monks with milk, butter and cheese.
		There were iron mines throughout the Chartreuse mountains so the monks built their own foundry, drawing upon the energy offered by the raging mountain streams and using charcoal they made from the many trees in the forest.
		The mountain forest was filled with tall, straight trees and the monks could harvest these for funds needed to maintain La Grande Chartreuse, the order's mother-house, and other Chartreuse monasteries springing up throughout the world.
	www.chartreuse.fr /pa_history2_uk.htm (439 words)

	Chartreuse - History Chartreuse Order
		The Chartreuse Order of cloistered monks (The Carthusians) was founded in 1084, making it – at more than 900 years old - one of the oldest religious orders in Christianity.
		Chartreuse monks are contemplatives, dedicating their lives to listening in silence to God.
		This solitude is neither a monk's retreat from the world nor a resignation from life but rather his choice of a mental, physical and spiritual freedom in which he can give his life to all humanity and from which he can engage in universal prayer.
	www.chartreuse.fr /pa_history1_uk.htm (678 words)

	Chartreuse Mountains - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Chartreuse Mountains (Massif de la Chartreuse) is a mountain range in eastern France, stretching to the north from the city of Grenoble to the Lac du Bourget.
		the Chartreuse liquor, manufactured under the monks' supervision.
		Chartreuse, the greenish color of the Chartreuse liqueur.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chartreuse_Mountains (104 words)

	911 Chef Eric - Green Chartreuse and Yellow Chartreuse Drinks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Chartreuse is a very strong liquor that is made by French monks of the Chartreuse monastery according to a secret formula.
		To relieve their affliction, cows suffering from flatulence and bloat are treated with Chartreuse Elixir mixed with water by farmers in the Chartreuse mountains.
		Yellow Chartreuse was known as "The Queen of Liqueurs" and "The World's Greatest Liqueur" in the late 19th century.
	911cheferic.com /main/03march/drink.asp (501 words)

	CARTHUSIANS - LoveToKnow Article on CARTHUSIANS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		He pointed out to them a desolate spot named Chartreuse, on the mountains near Grenoble, rocky and precipitous, and snow-covered during a great portion of the year, and told them they might there carry out their design.
		The superiors of the Charterhouses are priors, not abbots, and the prior of the Grande Chartreuse is the superior general of the order, A general chapter of the priors is held annually at the Grande Chartreuse.
		At the French Revolution the monks were driven from the Grande Chartreuse, but they retuflied in 1816; they were again driven out under the Association Laws of 1901, and the commun ity of the Grande Chartreuse is now settled in an old Certosa near Lucca.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /C/CA/CARTHUSIANS.htm (1871 words)

	Grenoble Cycling Pages - August 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Chartreuse mountains are very pretty rolling range and the view is particularly impressive from this col. The roads were very quiet considering that it was the height of the summer holiday.
		The mountain passes may not be as high as the other events in the Alps, but they are very pretty and the event crosses some of the most famous passes in the Alps.
		There were no mountain views as cloud was covering the tops, but there were lots of spectators sheltering under their umbrellas and shouting encouragement at the passing cyclists.
	grenoblecycling.free.fr /2000-August.htm (3829 words)

	Grande Chartreuse - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Grande Chartreuse is the head monastery of the Carthusian order.
		It is located in the Chartreuse mountains, to the north of the city of Grenoble, in the commune of Saint-Pierre-de-Chartreuse in the Isère département of France.
		The quiet, serenity, and piety of the place contrasted with what he saw as the violent emerging age of machinery, and the monastic calm became, for him, the sussurations of a dying world.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Grande_Chartreuse (165 words)

	LA GRANDE CHARTREUSE - LoveToKnow Article on LA GRANDE CHARTREUSE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The first convent on the present site was built between 1132 and 1137, but the actual buildings date only from about 1676, the older ones having been often burnt.
		After passing through four tunnels the road bends north (leaving the Guiers Mort which flows past St Pierre de Chartreuse), and the valley soon opens to form the upland hollow in which are the buildings of the convent.
		The magnificent revenues derived from the profits of this manufacture were devoted by the monks to various purposes of benevolence, especially in the neighboring villages, which owe to this source their churches, schools, hospitals, andc., andc., built and maintained at the expense of the monks.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /C/CH/CHARTREUSE_LA_GRANDE.htm (735 words)

	Chartreuse Liqueurs - Food Reference Beverage Facts
		Chartreuse, green or yellow, are two French liqueurs shrouded in secrecy much like other unique products in the world.
		The original Elixir Vegetal de la Grande Chartreuse ran to 71 percent ABV and proved to be too potent for monks who adapted the recipe to make a milder liqueur (Green Chartreuse); its success was immediate throughout Europe.
		Chartreuse liqueurs consist of 130 plants, herbs, roots, leaves, barks, brandy, distilled honey and sugar syrup.
	www.foodreference.com /html/artchartreuseliqueurs.html (652 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Bruno (1030-1101)
		But he soon found that this was not his vocation, and after a short sojourn at Sèche-Fontaine near Molesme, he left two of his companions, Peter and Lambert, and betook himself with six others to Hugh of Châteauneuf, Bishop of Grenoble, and, according to some authors, one of his pupils.
		The bishop, to whom God had shown these men in a dream, under the image of seven stars, conducted and installed them himself (1084) in a wild spot on the Alps of Dauphiné named Chartreuse, about four leagues from Grenoble, in the midst of precipitous rocks and mountains almost always covered with snow.
		Meanwhile the friends of St. Bruno died one after the other: Urban II in 1099; Landuin, the prior of the Grand Chartreuse, his first companion, in 1100; Count Roger in 1101.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/03014b.htm (2259 words)

	L'Alpe n°21 : article abstracts
		And it is also open to current debates on the future of the Alps and other mountains in the world.
		Similar to Barbizon, an artist's colony was created in the small village of Proveysieux in the Chartreuse mountains during the last quarter of the 1800s to celebrate Mother Nature in words, paintings and photography.
		The national flag (mountains, snow lions and sun rays) is forbidden and almost forgotten by the younger generations.
	www.glenatpresse.com /lalpe/21/e.htm (843 words)

	- French Escapade - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		We'll cross the Chartreuse mountains, a land of extraordinary beauty and serenity.
		We'll visit the Chartreuse Correrie, a museum in a monastery, then we'll walk in the peaceful surroundings of the Chartreuse where monks still live.
		This is where, from a secret recipe guarded by the monks for centuries, the Chartreuse liqueur is produced from over 130 plants.
	www.frenchescapade.com /itinerary-8.html (145 words)

	Karst Features of France: Musée de l'Ours des Cavernes en Chartreuse (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		An unusual museum opened its doors on the 5th July 2002 in Entremont-le-Vieux (Savoy) in the Chartreuse Mountains: a museum entirely devoted to the Cave Bear.
		Ursus speleus was one of those rare mammals which seems exclusively European, formerly populating the forests in moderate climates as well as the cold steppe zones.
		The museum is situated at the foot of the Granier mountain which contains a well-known site called, the Grotte de la Balme à Collomb, which was discovered in 1988 and produced 12 000 bones of the Cave Bear between 1989 and 1994.
	www.showcaves.com /english/fr/karst/Chartreuse.html (312 words)

	Great Valley Youth Group - Missions
		Located at the base of the Belledonne Mountain range, Champfleuri is said by many to be “the pearl of the Alps.” (Or at least that’s what we call it!) The view from camp, out over the Isere River Valley and into the Chartreuse Mountains, was awe-inspiring.
		While we were in the mountains, an orange alert was issued, which is a medium-level alert.
		Two of our mountain guides, Bruno and Regis, who are not Christians in any sense of the word, were talking to Thierry while we were singing praise songs as a large group.
	www.gvyouth.org /missions/champfleuri_04_recap.htm (6410 words)

	Perennials at Digging Dog \| Achillea \| Aconitum \| Alchemilla \| Anemone
		One reason for noting a perennial’s place of origin is to remind us that perennials are really wild flowers, and our garden unites the finest from meadows, mountains and forests all around the globe.
		Bred by the Dutch Sahin Seed Company and named in honor of Queen Elizabeth the II’s fifty-year reign, this bushy beauty’s upright, compact form is garnished with new leaves glowing chartreuse to gilded yellow, then transmuting to a lime-green hue when mature.
		Upon opening, the outside petals of the flared trumpetlike flowers are deep pink with chartreuse dashes, while the white interior petals reveal elaborate burgundy markings and delicate feathering toward the edges.
	www.diggingdog.com /pages2/perennials.php (3647 words)

	FRANCE Magazine - The next best thing to being there (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		There is, of course, an upside to having a river running rampant in your front garden and mountains lurking in the back, and the city wallows in a wealth of fresh mineral water.
		Cultivated in the mountains, the noix is a variety of walnut brandishing its own AOC and, in one of the few areas of France not to have vineyards to speak of, the esteemed walnut whips up as much interest and enthusiasm.
		Also indigenous to the mountains and very much enjoyed en ville is the infamously potent liqueur made by monks up in the Chartreuse mountains.
	www.francemag.com /frmag/content/article.asp?ArticleID=10013 (937 words)

	Provence II Bicycle Tour - Itinerary - Erickson Cycle Tours European Travel Packages Bicycling Tours
		The route consists of a series of small passes and valleys that lie between a high ridge on the east and the towering peaks of the Montagne de Lans of the Vercors to the west.
		At the northern end of the ridge there is a tunnel through the mountain terminating on the vertical cliffs above Grenoble, with spectacular views of the Chartreuse mountains to the north.
		The Chartreuse is a region very similar to the Vercors, but about 1/3 the size and more dramatic in its scenery.
	ecycletours.com /content2002/02-itinerary.htm (2570 words)

	Petite French Alps Bicycle Tour - Itinerary - Erickson Cycle Tours European Travel Packages Bicycling Tours
		At the northern end of the Vercors there is a tunnel through the mountain terminating on the vertical cliffs above Grenoble with spectacular views of the Chartreuse mountains to the north.
		The views of the Vercors and the Chartreuse mountains across the Isère valley will keep us continuously gawking and stopping for photos.
		The summit is perched directly above the lake, affording awesome views of the lake, the town of Annecy, and all the surrounding mountains.
	ecycletours.com /content2002/04-itinerary.htm (2336 words)

	Tours in France: Vacation for Gay & Lesbian Travel Audience (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		We will be heading towards the breathtaking mountainous region of Vercors, bordered by 180 miles of cliffs on the very edge of the Alps.
		On a visit to the Chartreuse cellars, the largest liqueur cellar in the world, you'll learn all about the making of this world-famous beverage.
		This is where — from a secret recipe guarded by the monks for centuries — the Chartreuse liqueur is produced from over 130 plants.
	www.venture-out.com /france.htm (1783 words)

	Chartreuse Mountains -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Massif de la Chartreuse is a (A series of hills or mountains) mountain range located to the north of the city of (A city in southeastern France on the Isere River) Grenoble, (A republic in western Europe; the largest country wholly in Europe) France.
		the (Click link for more info and facts about Chartreuse liquor) Chartreuse liquor, manufactured under the monks' supervision.
		(Aromatic green or yellow liqueur flavored with orange peel and hyssop and peppermint; made at monastery near Grenoble, France) Chartreuse, the (The property of being green; resembling the color of growing grass) greenish (A visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect) color of the Chartreuse liqueur.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/ch/chartreuse_mountains.htm (160 words)

	Overview
		Grant-supported research is currently being performed in the areas of paleoclimatology, lithospheric structure determination, earthquake hazard modeling, neotectonics, experimental petrology, magmatic processes, and fluvial sedimetology.
		Fold in the Chartreuse Mountains north of Grenoble, France.
		Graduate students in the department are actively involved in research projects which take them to all regions of the globe.
	www.geol.binghamton.edu /overview.html (454 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: La Grande Chartreuse
		[Note: The monks of La Grand Chartreuse, driven into exile with the prior general, found refuge at Farneta, in Italy, until 1929, when Montrieux, the first of the French charterhouses to be restored, was reopened.
		Only in 1940, in the unsettled conditions of World War II, were the monks able to re-occupy La Grande Chartreuse.]
		La Grande Chartreuse par un chartreux (Lyons, 1898), tr.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/03636a.htm (438 words)

	Skiing Le Sappey en Chartreuse (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		On route you pass the excellent Café des Alpes with its terrace and view over the Belledonne and Oisans mountain ranges.
		The resort is dominated the magnificent Chamchaude mountain.
		For experts, the cross country pistes link Le Sappey with St Pierre de Chartreuse via the Col du Coq.
	www.pistehors.com /resorts/northern/chartreuse/lesappey.htm (263 words)

	Snow and Avalanche Report
		A group of walkers were surprised by the snowstorm in the Chartreuse mountains close to Grenoble and had to seek shelter over the weekend in a refuge at 1700 meters.
		The Pistehors team were ski touring in the Vanoise, guests of the National Park.
		On Monday we tackled the Rochail in the Ecrins mountains between Grenoble and Briançon.
	www.pistehors.com /comments/299_0_1_0_C (603 words)

	comp plant for cat 0304.doc
		Empetrum nigrum, Crowberry Small heath-like plant from the high moorlands and mountains of the Northern Hemisphere.
		Leucothoe davisiae, [Ericaceae] Northern Sierra Nevada in California and the Siskiyou mountains in SW Oregon.
		A prostrate evergreen shrublet of moorland and mountain bogs with far-reaching wiry stems bearing scattered tiny leaves.
	www.bovees.com /comp%20plant%20for%20cat%200304_doc.htm (4025 words)

	Excursions: Spring 2005 Conference on EPSRC-ILL Millennium Projects
		We will leave from the front gate of ILL-ESRF at 8:30 sharp Saturday to call in at the nearby Chartreuse Caves, the world's largest liqueur cellars where the famous green and yellow nectars have been distilled since 1605 by hooded Monks to a secret recipe.
		We then continue to the heart of the Beaujolais winegrowing area for lunch in the hotel-restaurant Les Maritonnes before visting in the afternoon the Hameau du Vin a 19th century railway station converted into a wine museum with ancient presses and other equipment.
		A free walking tour of the Chartreuse mountains near Grenoble will be organised, with a visit to the Chartreuse Monastry, whose monks still make the famous green and yellow liquors (but not in the monastry :-) The walk is not technically difficult, but sturdy walking boots and shorts or jeans are advisable.
	www.ill.fr /dif/epsrc/excursions.html (398 words)

	Photos from my year in France (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		View from the top of the Dent de Crolle ("the tooth") on the southern edge of the Chartreuse mountains.
		Beyond are the Vercor mountains, which together with the Chartreuse, are the block-faulted and tipped Pre-Alps in this area.
		The Belledonne mountains (to the left, just off the picture) would be considered Alps.
	www.geol.binghamton.edu /~barker/france.html (476 words)

	www.cyclingnews.com presents the 55th Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré
		The route of stage five undulates over a number of lower category climbs on the edge of the Alps before the 500 metres of vertical climbing to the Tunnel du Granier and the final 10 kilometres of descending into Chambery for the stage finish.
		The high mountains return on stage six, when the race will climb the 1570 metre Col du Telegraphe before the steeper gradients of the 2646 metre Col du Galibier.
		The 1434 metre Col du Coq is 12 kilometres at nine percent before a very technical descent to then join the easier gradients of the 1326 metre Col du Porte and a 15 kilometre descent to the finish in Grenoble.
	www.cyclingnews.com /road/2003/jun03/DauphineLibere03?id=default (731 words)

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