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The Chartreuse Mountains (French: massif de la Chartreuse French: [ʃaʁ.tʁøːz]) is a mountain range in southeastern France stretching to the north from the city of Grenoble to the Lac du Bourget. It is the southernmost range in the Jura Mountains and belongs to the French Prealps. One of the larger cities in the Chartreuse Mountains is Voiron (Isère).The monastic Carthusian Order takes its name from these mountains where its first hermitage was founded in 1084.
