Why does a French liqueur cost more than Pappy Van Winkle? The answer lies in Chartreuse's extraordinary history and its ...

In recent months, bottles of Chartreuse have been hard to come by. Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem like that will be changing anytime soon. The bright-green liqueur is made by Carthusian monks in the ...

CANNES, France (Reuters) - The unsolved murder of seven French monks in Algeria during the brutal civil conflict of the 1990s is recounted in "Of Gods and Men," a somber and reflective entry at the ...

VATICAN CITY A French monk who lived among the Tuareg people in the Sahara and was killed in an anti-French uprising in Algeria in 1916 was beatified by the Vatican on Sunday, the last formal step ...

Monks from the 900-year-old Carthusian order in the French Alps have cocktail devotees shaken and stirred. The herbal liqueur Chartreuse, long made by the community, has been in short supply in ...

PARIS (Reuters) - A French general has said seven French monks murdered in Algeria in 1996 were killed by the army there rather than by Islamist militants and Paris helped cover up the truth, a ...

The Vatican on Saturday declared seven French Trappist monks beheaded by Islamists in Algeria in 1996 as martyrs, paving the way for their beatification -- the first step towards sainthood. On the ...

Wonder how much the tariffs were on this? A trove of books written by medieval-era French monks were bound with bizarre “hairy” covers from far-away animals — shedding light on a booming, ancient ...

On December 15, 1969, pianist Thelonious Monk was in Paris on tour with Charlie Rouse (ts) Nate Hygelund (b) and Austin “Paris" Wright (d), with Philly Joe Jones (d) playing on Nutty and Blue Monk.