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Show Decree of Louis XIV Bars Bathing in Seine Paris. River batiiing in the open is forbidden In Paris, but only lately have the police learned that they are enforcing a decree of Louis XIV, adopted in 1CSS. When a woman and her husband, both in bathing suits, were arrested recently the loud protest they registered reg-istered caused the authorities to dig j up the ordinance they were enforcing. The police had orders not to permit j bathing in the River Seine, hut they ! did not know why. They know now that the rule is absolute and that costume cos-tume has nothing to do with it In scores of entirely inclosed bath-bouses bath-bouses along the river, however, tlion- sands bathe daily. Much family linen j is washed in the dozens of big laun- I dry boats moored to the banks in the center of the city. I |