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Author: CraigLaBan

Posted on October 1, 1992March 21, 2017

Paris’ bains-douches

Feature, Hot tips on hot showers, October 1992

According to La Vie Parisienne à Travers les Ages, Henri IV’s mistress once felt obliged to tell him, “Sire, it’s a good thing that you’re King, because in all honesty, you smell like carrion rot.”

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