1797 Henri-Louis Pernod opens his
first absinthe distillery in Couvet,
the Val-de Travers, Switzerland
1792 Dr. Pierre Ordinaire, a French doctor, develops the first version of Absinthe in the Swiss town of town of Couvet. By mixing wormwood with other herbs and alcohol he creates his highly alcoholic elixir which quickly becomes a cure-all tonic
1805 Henri-Louis opens his second distillery, this time in Pontarlier, France. Production quickly rises from 16 litres a day to 30,000, establishing the town as the new home of The Green Fairy
1840 The French Foreign Legion
Soldiers fighting in Algeria are given Absinthe to ward off disease. It proves so popular, returning troops demand the drink in the salons and cafés of Paris
The first clear evidence of absinthe in the modern sense of a distilled spirit containing green anise and fennel, however, dates to the 18th century. According to popular legend, absinthe began as an all-purpose patent remedy created by Dr. Pierre Ordinaire, a French doctor living in Couvet, Switzerland, around 1792 (the exact date varies by account). Ordinaire's recipe was passed on to the Henriod sisters of Couvet, who sold absinthe as a medicinal elixir. By other accounts, the Henriod sisters may have been making the elixir before Ordinaire's arrival. In either case, a certain Major Dubied acquired the formula from the sisters and in 1797, with his son Marcellin and son-in-law Henry-Louis Pernod, opened the first absinthe distillery, Dubied Père et Fils, in Couvet. In 1805 they built a second distillery in Pontarlier, France, under the new company name Maison Pernod Fils.[13] Pernod Fils remained one of the most popular brands of absinthe up until the drink was banned in France in 1914.
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