Everyone knows how popular in ancient Rome were baths.Christians came to power, first shut down all baths, and soon even the concept of hygiene has disappeared for many centuries.10 without interest facts about European historical unsanitary.
most cleanly Queen Elizabeth I was Tudor.She even managed to instill court vogue wash, despite fears of physicians that such frequent bathing - once a month - always injurious to health.
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Leonardo da Vinci was so frightened by the stench of Paris, which was designed for King Francis I flush the toilet.In terms of Leonardo were pipes, lead-water and sewage pipes and ventilation shafts, but Francis did not understand why all this is necessary.Toilets were not constructed.
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Spain Queen Isabella of Castile (the end of the XV century.) Acknowledged that a lifetime washed only twice - at birth and wedding day.
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also twice in my life wash the French King Louis XIV, and that on the advice of doctors.Wash monarch led to such horror that he had sworn never ever take water treatments.
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Duke of Norfolk refused to wash out of religious conviction.His body was covered with ulcers.In the end, waiting for his lordship drunk dead drunk, the servants washed it by force.
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Pope Clement VII died painfully from scabies.
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King Philip II bitten "myriads of lice."Also from the lice lost daughter of one of the kings of France.
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Pope Clement V died of dysentery.
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already mentioned King Francis I came up with "a royal welcome on the pot."The Queen Mother Catherine de Medici also arranged at such receptions.When her husband died, she changed to the toilet seat on a velvet black.
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famous Frederick Barbarossa was nearly killed in a toilet.In 1183, in Erfurt castle floor above the room where the sewage flowed, fell, and many knights and princes have met a terrible death, drowning in filth.Barbarossa escaped, clinging to the window opening, where it is then lowered on a rope.
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