Lightning hit the Pernod Fils absinthe distillery in 1905, the year the ban movement against absinthe kicked off (was it insured?)
A few years ago, someone started making a recreation of the 1904 Pernod Fils absinthe using the same alembics that were salvaged from the burned building and sold off all those years ago and the old recipe. It's supposed to be a spot-on recreation.