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I think it correlates with some sort of "party like there's no tomorrow" kind of trend rather than some national nervous breakdown

But that doesn't explain the very odd inversely proportional ratio vs "rest of the world" circa 1920. It's a symmetry; france is as high as the rest is low

Maybe everybody came to france to drink during the 20s idk

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Yeah probably a mix of partying it up and drowning out the horrors of WW1. That war would really suck to be in.

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WWI was an abomination, literally a crossover between polo and rugby with machine guns and artillery

But then again look at the other actors of wwI, especially germany https://pic8.co/sh/6NXyTY.gif

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Don't forget the poison gas. IIRC the Geneva Convention was drafted as a response to the pure horror of WWI.

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But then again look at the other actors of wwI, especially germany https://pic8.co/sh/6NXyTY.gif

My god. Thats not a list of war casualities.

Thats a graphic breakdown of how they domesticated us.

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Check out the book “Storm of Steel” by Ernst Junger. German soldier in WW1, it’s a good book.

This may explain part of the drinking in France

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeanettehurt/2018/11/12/who-was-the-drunkest-generation-the-lost-generation-in-paris-in-the-1920s/amp/

Big cultural center with Hemingway, Picasso, and other famous artists and writers. The place to be I suppose.