Chartreuse (liqueur) of the foundation of the abbey. It is similar to Green Chartreuse, but slightly sweeter. Chartreuse 1605 – Liqueur d'Elixir (56%) was created to commemorate the return of a mysterious manuscript concerning an elixir of long life to the Carthusian monks by Marshal François Annibal d'Estrées. White Chartreuse (30%) was produced and sold between 1860 and 1900. The monks make a Génépi which is the general term in the Alps for a homemade or local liquor featuring local mountain flora. There are hundreds or even thousands of different Génépi liquors made, many simply by families for their own use each
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