When the Bread of Life Kills: Ergotism
On September 5, 1951, Janet Flanner — who wrote for The New Yorker under the name of Genêt — related a story in her Paris Journal 1944 – 1965 that seemed to come from a medieval morality play. Pont St.-Esprit, a small village near Avignon and the ancestral home of Jackie Kennedy’s grandfather, woke up to … More When the Bread of Life Kills: Ergotism
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