Chartreuse

(LA GRANDE,) (shar trooz,) a celebrated monastery of France, situate among lofty mountains, 14 m. N. of Grenoble, dep. Isére. Founded in 1084, it now forms the chief monastic house of the Car thus i ans. Its inmates derive the greater part of their income from the preparation of the noted liqueur known as Chartreuse, and which has been unsucce fully imitated by other makers. [s. 169]