When Kings Stank (English)

What if the most powerful kings in history were also the filthiest? Welcome to Versailles, the most splendid palace in the world... and the stinkiest. 700 rooms, zero toilets. In this visual story — 14 chapters and over 20 illustrations — Lesly Michel takes you through the secret history of filth, from Versailles to today: Louis XIV and his two baths, inhabited wigs, Napoleon's famous letter to Joséphine, the sewers of Paris, 3,000 years of soap history, and what the scholars say — Corbin, Vigarello, Semmelweis, Pasteur. Funny, enlightening, and richly illustrated. By Lesly Michel, Les Éditions LeVent.