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'Hideous Absinthe' and France's Artistic Elite

By Michele Norris
Published May 13, 2004 at 9:00 PM MST

NPR's Michele Norris talks with Jad Adams, author of Hideous Absinthe: A History of the Devil in a Bottle, about the cultural role the potent green liquor played among artistic circles in 1890s France.

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