Show MONKS OF chartreuse carefully guard the secret of their liquor the monks of IA grandc chartreuse have perforce shaken the dust of france off their feet and wandered forth into a strange world carefully taking their secret with they have held the recipe for their famous liquor bince 1733 when they received it from their brethren the chartreuse of paris to whom it bad been conme irby marshai in and who tardily recognized that it would be easier to obtain alm requisite alpine plants from tho grande chartreuse than from paris during the french revolution one 0 the superiors of the order fled with the recipe lie was arrested but happily for himself ordered to be deported and so carried off the precious document which he said to havo concealed in his landals they were afterwards trans to dom antoine kantas of the chartreuse of and eventually to the mall number of monks who found their way hack to abe grandc chartreuse in 1816 under the direction of parc gamier name still appears on the bottles hie production of the liquor wag actively carried oh but it remained practically unknown in the locality until in 1849 a party of french soldiers guided by divine providence as the good monks believe stopped at the monastery and astl the they made it widely knoma and then the liqueur has wed m a rich stream throughout the world |