Well; I don't find anything scandalous in regular drinking.Of course I do not like alcohic people. In Europe, even today, people uses to drink, and heavily, but most of them are not alcoholized. I mean that they are so used to drink that they uses not to be intoxicated by alcoholic beverages. Maybe that was the case about some French Revolution leaders. Of course, our perfect, dear Maxime wouldn't drink so much. Only a glass or two of wine with a lot of water in them. My Hanriot , even if he was not - it seems - the alcoholic of the legend depicts, liked to drink a little, along with friends...It was quite natural at the time. But his favorite drink was not wine; he loved champagne *cough* *cough*...What an aristocratic taste! :D

Yes; laudanum was not seen as a drug back then: you would take it just to cure some physicall illness or at least, to calm them. I don't think they considered it a vice...At the start of XX Century even cocaine was not seen as a bad drug. I have magazines from that time in which there is publicity of medicines made with cocaine.

HanriotFran (Vanesa)