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Show It having been stated that .the famous liqueur of the Grand Chartreuse has been sold to an American syndicate, at the head of which was the American representative of the firm of Moet & Chandon, the .Paris correspondent of the London Observer has been at pains to ascertain the true facts of the case. As the result of his inquiries he is able to state that there is no truth whatever what-ever in the report. What has occurred is that as soon as the associations bill became law one of the Fathers of the Grand Chartreuse, Dom Valery, was "secularised" by a vote of the general chapter of the order, threw off the habit, and became simply the' Abbe Rey. He was appointed "procureur general" of the Grand Chartreuse, and as such took over the direction of the liqueur factory, of which he' is the sole legal proprietor. The monks are shortly short-ly leaving for Austria, where they have purchased a magnificent chateau. They have already sent on to' their new home their priceless library and the portraits of the generals of the order extending over a period of a thousand years. For some time past no guests are accepted any longer at the monastery. mon-astery. . |