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Grasse

Town near Cannes in the département of Alpes-Maritimes in southeast France, situated 200-400 m/650-1,300 ft above sea level on a hillside overlooking the Mediterranean; population (1990) 42,100, conurbation 335,000. The town is a holiday resort and is the centre of a perfume-manufacturing region, flowers being grown on a large scale for this purpose. Olives and oranges are also grown here.

The town has an 11th-century Gothic cathedral containing three paintings by Rubens and one by Jean-Honoré Fragonard, who was born here in 1732. There is a statue of him in the town, and the nearby 17th-century Villa Fragonard has been converted to a museum; it contains some of his work. Grasse originally prospered around the tanning industry. The perfume industry developed because of the 16th-century fashion for scented gloves.
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Archer and her son and daughter, like every one else in New York, knew who these privileged beings were: the Dagonets of Washington Square, who came of an old English county family allied with the Pitts and Foxes; the Lannings, who had intermarried with the descendants of Count de Grasse, and the van der Luydens, direct descendants of the first Dutch governor of Manhattan, and related by pre-revolutionary marriages to several members of the French and British aristocracy.
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