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Switzerland

‘La Mal du Pays’, lithograph by Joseph-Louis-Hippolyte Bellangé, 1832. Musée Carnavalet, Paris.

When Nostalgia Was Deadly

When it was first named in 17th-century Switzerland, nostalgia was a very real – and very dangerous – disease.

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