Playwright Alfred Jarry saw his demise at the bottom of a bottle of absinthe, while Pablo Picasso dabbled in the drink for a time. In 1905, Jean Lanfray, a French labourer in Switzerland ...

from In a Café (The Absinthe Drinker) by Edgar Degas to Pablo Picasso's The Glass of Absinthe. It was said to have hallucinogenic properties that could spur creative genius but may also plunge an ...