tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37388994.post3434007365680300946..comments2024-01-13T00:38:28.549-08:00Comments on Southern California Aquatics SCAQ Swim Club: Diane de Poitiers: The mistress of France's 16th century King Henry II was a swimmer!Tony Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00109365938555421509noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37388994.post-1269841913060886722009-12-25T01:54:29.256-08:002009-12-25T01:54:29.256-08:00Thank you Tony.
I've always wondered how the...Thank you Tony. <br /><br />I've always wondered how they managed sex back in those days. It would have been like making love to a homeless person. I think my attitude would have been yecch, forget it, I'm becoming a monk. <br /><br />Especially the French, who, as the English used to put it disdainfully, "make love with their faces." <br /><br />(I understand if you don't publish this comment.)John Craighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08729625146043379286noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37388994.post-25787869174928381782009-12-24T19:22:35.590-08:002009-12-24T19:22:35.590-08:00Look at you: Fast swimmer, smart brain!
I looked ...Look at you: Fast swimmer, smart brain!<br /><br />I looked it up: Holidays or weekends is when the peasants bathed. The palace of Versailles, built in 1661, had absolutely no bathing facilities (or toilets).<br /><br />Leave it to the French and Americans to bring it back in the 1700'sTony Austinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00109365938555421509noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37388994.post-76050167980900316932009-12-24T15:56:08.859-08:002009-12-24T15:56:08.859-08:00Another way it would have made de Poitiers more ap...Another way it would have made de Poitiers more appealing was that her daily swim would have cleaned her. Back in those days in Europe baths were infrequent affairs, even for the upper classes, so a woman who swam would have been much less piquant.John Craighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08729625146043379286noreply@blogger.com