FRANCE: Brutish Wormwood
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Doctors agree that absinthe, bad for men, is definitely worse for women. A famed and horrible exhibit in Europe is Buveuse d'Absinthe, painted by Belgium's late great Felicien Rops (1833-98) and showing a girl in the sodden stage of an absinthe drunk (see cut, p. 21). Most absinthe neophytes begin by taking too much, enjoy a brief stage of exhilaration (often quarrelsome), then lapse into an absinthe stupor, followed by sleep. They wake up with a terrific pounding headache which lasts all the next day and is punctuated by fits of vomiting.
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