Club's Origins
Several drugs like hashish and opium where increasingly well known in Europe starting in the beginning of nineteenth century. At that time, the use of these drugs is particularly widespread in the scientific and literature circles for purposes of recreation, it was more of an aesthetic curiosity or pseudo-science rather than a smoking lounge. In 1821 appeared Confessions of an English Opium-Eater of Thomas de Quincey, it was translated into French in 1828 by an anonymous author that signed as ADM, which turned out to be Alfred de Musset.
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