An evil man, representing medicine and religion (?), gloats over the death of the freedom of the individual in Switzerland to consume absinthe, represented as a green woman stabbed by a cross. Colour lithograph after A.-H. Gantner, 1910.

An absinthe addict eyeing three glasses on a table; advertisement for film "Absinthe". Colour lithograph, ca. 1913.

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Etude expimentale et clinique sur l'absinthisme et l'alcoolisme.

<p>Absinthe (absinth) for menstrual pains</p>

Labels for pharmaceutical packaging. Colour lithographs.

1 print (album fol. 4r, item no. 53) : lithograph, printed in colours

Absinthine Bonnichon, Liqueur pour dames: product label. Colour lithograph.

Arts et traditions populaires.

Collection Arts et traditions populaires

248 pages, 7 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm.

L'absinthe : histoire de la fée verte / Marie-Claude Delahaye.

Le tabac et l'absinthe : leur influence sur la santé publique, sur l'ordre moral et social / [Paul Jolly].

<p>"Jean Dumas, a Parisian artist, is introduced to the addictive liquor absinthe (absinth) by his materialistic mistress, who also convinces him to rob his well-to-do parents' house. Jean is discovered and disowned by his parents, then he marries one of their maids, who becomes repelled by his poverty and leaves him for a wealthier man. Jean, suffering from drug-induced hallucinations, eventually turns to robbery as a means of supporting his habit and joins an Apache gang. One night, disguised as a cabby, he attempts to rob a passenger who turns out to be his wife. He drives her through Paris to the forest where he strangles her and leaves her for dead. The next morning, he returns to his parents' home where his father gives him a gun and turns him away. In the city streets, Jean is ridiculed by urchins and follows a company of soldiers."--American Film Institute catalogue summary of plot of film</p>

1 print : lithograph, printed in colours ; image 99 x 66.6 cm

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Etude expimentale et clinique sur l'absinthisme et l'alcoolisme.

Absinthine Bonnichon, Liqueur pour dames: product label. Colour lithograph.

L'absinthe : histoire de la fée verte / Marie-Claude Delahaye.

Le tabac et l'absinthe : leur influence sur la santé publique, sur l'ordre moral et social / [Paul Jolly].

An absinthe addict eyeing three glasses on a table; advertisement for film "Absinthe". Colour lithograph, ca. 1913.

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Absinthe

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Etude expimentale et clinique sur l'absinthisme et l'alcoolisme.

Absinthine Bonnichon, Liqueur pour dames: product label. Colour lithograph.

L'absinthe : histoire de la fée verte / Marie-Claude Delahaye.

Le tabac et l'absinthe : leur influence sur la santé publique, sur l'ordre moral et social / [Paul Jolly].

An absinthe addict eyeing three glasses on a table; advertisement for film "Absinthe". Colour lithograph, ca. 1913.

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