The Day An Entire French Village Went Mad
Pont-Saint-Esprit, France. Franz-Marc Frei. Getty Images.

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The Day An Entire French Village Went Mad

Ashe Schow

Pont-Saint-Esprit is an idyllic small village in the south of France, situated along the Rhône river and famous for its medieval bridge for which the town is named.

Though it is the birthplace of Jackie Kennedy’s great-grandfather, Pont-Saint-Esprit is an otherwise unknown town in the famous country. Except, that is, for an incident in 1951 that left seven people dead, 50 people in asylums, and another 200 or so ill.

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