In some special national customs, for bathing is actually a "sense of awe", they may only take three baths in their lives, birth wash once, marriage wash once, death wash once, such a bath is really difficult to understand, according to common sense, two or three days without bathing the body will accumulate some body odor, is not uncomfortable?
Maybe the habit becomes natural, the environment is so, but as the "Sun King" Louis XIV, why doesn't he want to take a bath? According to some historical records, Louis XIV took a bath once a year, or once a few years, as a king of a country, how could he not pay attention to hygiene?
In fact, Louis XIV was a very particular monarch, he was nothing more than an excessive religious belief, at the beginning of Louis XIV's accession to the throne, he was regent by his mother Anna and the prime minister Cardinal, until 1661, after the death of Cardinal Mazarin, he really began to govern.
He established a centralized kingdom of absolute absolute monarchy, and through the genius missionary Bishop Beauschère, he actively promoted the monarchical divine monarchy, suppressed Protestantism, banned religious freedom, and believed that in order to obtain supreme power, it was necessary to unify the religious beliefs of France.
In 1685, with the edict of Fontainebleau, Protestant churches and schools were forcibly closed, more than 200,000 Million Huguenots were exiled, and a purely Catholic state was established, in which "the cleanliness of the body is a blasphemy against the soul."
As a divine right of kings, Louis XIV naturally had to lead by example, and the more he did not bathe, the more he was able to gain religious support, and his power could be concentrated, so Louis XIV basically did not bathe except for bathing other than marriage, death, and healing.
Another theory is that the Black Death, also known as the Plague, was transmitted by fleas carried by rats, and the Black Death in Europe occurred in the mid-to-late 14th century and did not stop completely until the 1700s, when Louis XIV ascended the throne, and the Black Death was breaking out everywhere.
Swedish and Danish almanacs use "black" to describe the Black Death, not only because there will be black blood under the skin of the sick, but also that this incident brought darkness, which shows the terrible features of the Black Death, but because they do not understand the Black Death, the people believe that the germs entered the body through water and skin.
Louis XIV simply did not bathe, but in European history, the Black Death was known as the "ladder of human progress", and the Black Death opened the European Renaissance and broke the Catholic authoritarian status, thus changing the development of European civilization.
As the "Sun King", Although Louis XIV did not bathe, but paid attention to all aspects, such as his height was only 154cm, he asked the shoemaker to make a pair of shoes with thick heels, in a sense, he invented the first pair of high heels, and in order to cover up the smell, he also sprayed perfume.
Two measures by Louis XIV have spurred the development of perfumes and high heels, especially French perfumes that are known worldwide.