Bernier (born 1985), actress Frédéric Bourdillon (born 1991), French-Israeli basketball player in the Israel Basketball Premier League Jacques Cavallier (born 1962), perfumer Albert Charpin (1842–1924), painter Olivier Cresp (born 1955), perfumer Jean-Claude Ellena (born 1947), perfumer Alexandre-Évariste Fragonard (1780-1850), painter and sculptor Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732–1806), painter Jean Claude Gandur (born 1949), businessman Valentine Goby (born 1974), writer Marcel Journet (1868–1933), operatic baritone Vincent Koziello (born 1995), footballer Gilles Marini (born 1976), actor Michèle Mouton (born 1951), rally driver Charles Pasqua (1927-2015), businessman and politician Gazan de la Peyrière (1765-1845), general during the Napoleonic Wars Eugénie Le Sommer (born 1989), woman footballer Thomas Pinault (born 1981), footballer Adam Bessa, (born 1992), actor Théo Pourchaire (born 2003), racing driver Grasse was the death place of: Christian Calmes, Luxembourgian civil servant, lawyer, and historian Prince Eugen of Bavaria, member of the Bavarian Royal House of Wittelsbach Lolo Ferrari, dancer, actress, and singer Édith Piaf, singer Yvonne Rozille (1900–1985), film actress Eugène Sémérie (1832–1884), positivist activist Also notable: Ivan Bunin, Russian writer, Nobel Prize in Literature, 1933 François Joseph Paul de Grasse (1723–1788) admiral, best known for his command of the French fleet at the Battle of the Chesapeake, which led directly to the British surrender at Yorktown Gérard Philipe, actor Frederic Prokosch, American writer Alice Charlotte von Rothschild, patron of the arts H. G. Wells, British writer Dirk Bogarde, actor Twin towns - sister cities Grasse is twinned with: Ingolstadt, Germany since 1963 Carrara, Italy since 1995 Vila Real, Portugal since 1975 Murcia, Spain since 1990 Marblehead, Massachusetts USA since 1986 Opole, Poland since 1964 Kazanlak, Bulgaria Pardes Hanna-Karkur, Israel See also Route Napoléon Ancient Diocese of Grasse Communes of the Alpes-Maritimes department References External links Grasse city council website (in French) Communes of Alpes-Maritimes French Riviera Subprefectures in France