The intoxication in the writings of the literati of the Club des Hashischins (Paris, nineteenth century)

• Grant number: 15/03879-9
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: June 01, 2015
• End date: December 31, 2015
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - History - Modern and Contemporary History
• Principal Investigator: Jean Marcel Carvalho França
• Grantee: Gabriel Ferreira Gurian
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências Humanas e Sociais (FCHS). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Franca. Franca , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The nineteenth century Paris is one of the essential objects of study to understand the modern intoxicating practices and the direction subsequently taken in the West, especially in relation to its proximity to the arts. The 1800s witnessed a gradual miscibility between psychotropic substances and literary practices; the city of lights, and most notably the Club des Haschishins, took part in this process through the use of hashish. This study aims to understand which factors influenced directly in the rise of this substance to the elegant addiction status, becoming an originator element of a congregation of selected literary minds of the French capital in the 1840s. To do so, it will be sought to analyze, in view of the metropolitan and industrial scenario that took shape in the nineteenth century, after the Industrial Revolution, as well as the political and literary scene, the writings that focus directly on hashish, written by Charles Baudelaire and Théophile Gautier, notable members of the Club. (AU)