Valentin Magnan: The Man Who Took on the Green Fairy
In the shadowy corridors of 19th-century Parisian asylums, one man stood at the crossroads of science, society, and scandal: Valentin Magnan, a psychiatrist whose name became synonymous with the fight against absinthe. Born in 1835 in the sun-drenched city of Perpignan, Magnan’s journey from provincial medicine to the heart of French psychiatry was as intense […]
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