Die Grüne Fee

Messieurs. C'est l'Heure

It was said on October 7, 1910, when the prohibition of absinthe came into force in Switzerland - and deprived the small Val de Travers in the Swiss Jura of the product that had become world famous as the fuel of the poets and thinkers of the European "fin de siècle" was. While artists and creatives praised pure absinthe as an inspiring muse and "green fairy" to heaven, cheap copies adulterated with chemicals and industrial alcohol had made him the dangerous mass drug that was then banned. But in secret, the traditional production of the original absinthe lived on in his home tale..