It's the drink that,more than any lover,drove a
generation of artists,fromVan Gogh to Oscar
Wilde and Verlaine,to distraction,
Absinthe was their muse ,their creative rocket
,but the fabled "fee verte:(green fariy) which
they venerated in painting and prose,was also
their ruin,That was the theory ,at least ,when
France banned the green tinted liquor during
World War1claiming it drove drinkers insane
Since France lifted the ban on selling and drinking
absinthe in 1988,guy has been hard at work to
help the spirit shed its dark-and as it turns out,
inaccurate image,
But it was in late 19th century Belle Epoque
Paris that absinthe had its heyday,becoming
the favourite refreshiment of Vincent Van Gogh
and Henri de Toulouse Lautrec and Paul Verlaine,
Banning of the spirit in France and several other
countries caused economic calamity in Pontarlier,
In 1900,Pontarlier had 23distilleries,which pro
duced 10 million litres of absinthe for domestic
and export markets and employed 3000 people,
Back then ,80 percent of activity here depended
on absinthe production and pratically no one
managed to transition into other activities
Guy said,AFP
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