Chartreuse (liqueur) Titanic in 1912, one of the proposed dishes for First class was a Chartreuse based dessert. Sales at the French company were very poor, and by 1929, it faced bankruptcy. A group of local businessmen in Voiron bought all the shares at a low price and sent them as a gift to the monks in Tarragona. After regaining possession of the distillery, the Carthusian brothers returned to the monastery with the tacit approval of the French government and began to produce Chartreuse once again. Despite the eviction law, when a mudslide destroyed the distillery in 1935, the French government assigned
Yellow-green grosbeak Yellow-green grosbeak The yellow-green grosbeak ("Caryothraustes canadensis") is a species of grosbeak in the family Cardinalidae. In 1760 the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson included a description of the yellow-green grosbeak in his "Ornithologie" based on a specimen collected in Cayenne in French Guiana. He used the French name "Le Gros-bec de Cayenne" and the Latin name "Coccothraustes Cayanensis". Although Brisson coined Latin names, these do not conform to the binomial system and are not recognised by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. When in 1766 the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus updated his "Systema Naturae" for the twelfth edition he