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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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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 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.