French painter Edouard Manet's portraits will be showcased in a major exhibition at London's Royal Academy next year.

BBC: Manet portraits head for London's Royal Academy

The Royal Academy's Edouard Manet portraits show will kick 2013 off in blockbuster style when it opens in January.

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Absinthe inspired poets and artists, like Oscar Wilde, Charles Baudelaire and Edouard Manet - and has given regulators headaches for decades.

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