As far as women are concerned, they seem always to have been more clean than the men, except when men painted them in colors which men liked best. Pe… - Henry Brooks Adams

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As far as women are concerned, they seem always to have been more clean than the men, except when men painted them in colors which men liked best. Perhaps society was actually cleaner in the thirteenth century than in the sixteenth, as Saint Louis was more decent than Francis I, and as the bath was habitual in the twelfth century and exceptional in the renaissance.