Spring 1907
In France, the temperence society Le Croix Bleue works gathering nearly half a million signatures on its petition proclaiming that "Absinthe makes you crazy and criminal, provokes epilepsy and tuberculosis, and has killed thousands of French people. It makes a ferocious beast of man, a martyr of woman, and a degenerate of the infant, it disorganizes and ruins the family and menaces the future of the country."