Napoleon's green hour

  🔉During the 🔉reign of 🔉Napoleon the 3rd, 🔉absinth drinking 🔉was considered to be a 🔉well-respected 🔉bourgeois 🔉habit. Time between five and seven in the evening was called a green hour. 🔉It was believed that absinth 🔉stimulates appetite before dinner. More 🔉respectable absinth 🔉lovers who found it too 🔉shameful drinking too much 🔉in public quite soon 🔉mastered to 🔉go bar-hopping. Many women didn’t water absinth down. In other words, they 🔉did not add water into their 🔉glass with absinth. The 🔉explanation for that was to 🔉consume as much 🔉liquid as they could 🔉due to the 🔉corset wear. 🔉They say that 🔉paintings by Anri Tuluz-Lotrek were 🔉entirely painted with absinth. His 🔉favorite 🔉cocktail was a 🔉deadly 🔉combination of 🔉brandy and absinth. 🔉Moreover, he 🔉used to take a 🔉walking stick with him where he 🔉carried half-liter 🔉stock absinth and a little 🔉shot glass. Ernest Hemingway used to 🔉obtain absinth from Cuba after the drink 🔉had been forbidden in France. One such 🔉mug 🔉was a substitute for all the evening 🔉newspapers, for all the evenings at Parisian 🔉cafes, for all the 🔉chestnuts that were 🔉probably already 🔉blooming.