Chartreuse Combo

According to tradition, a marshal of artillery to French King Henry IV, François Hannibal d’Estrées, presented two Carthusian monks at Vauvert, near Paris, with an alchemical manuscript that contained a recipe for an “elixir of long life” in 1605.  The recipe eventually reached the religious order’s headquarters at the Grande Chartreuse monastery, north of Grenoble. It has since then been used to produce the “Elixir Végétal de la Grande Chartreuse”.