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For the anti-bathing fad, you'll want to look to the mid-late Renaissance (lemmy.world)
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[โ€“] TheDoozer 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I feel like the cross section of "people who knew King Louis XIV refused to take baths" and "people who don't know even approximately when Louis XIV ruled" would be relatively small. Is that not the case?

[โ€“] zloubida 3 points 4 days ago

Apparently not, at least not in France.

But it's something I saw with a lot of subject: as soon as something bad occurred before the 19th century, it's in the Middle Ages in the mind of most people.