We took a day trip to Auvers-Sur-Oise (thanks for the recommendation, Susannah!), which is a small village north of Paris where Vincent van Gogh spent the last two months of his life after leaving the asylum in Provence. He produced at least one painting or sketch every day until he fatally wounded himself in his room at the Auberge Ravoux on July 29th. It was said he went crazy (crā- crā) from either drinking cheap absinthe or eating too much lead paint. Both he and his brother Theo are buried at the cemetery here.
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