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And what these people drank
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-- you can follow it if you read L'Assommoir;
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it's a great paper topic
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--they drank almost everything they could.
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But in addition to absinthe,
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the regional production of fortified eau de vie,
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both liqueurs which are sweet,
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and eau de vie which is fairly sweet,
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which is extremely, powerful, it's like a brandy.
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If you look at a map of alcoholism in France today,
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very--the same thing, really,
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since the middle of the nineteenth century,