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Show Decree of Louis XIV Bars Bathing in Seine Paris. River bathing In the opeu is forbidden In Paris, but only lately have the police learned that they are enforcing a decree of Louis XTV, adopted in 10SS. 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 up the ordinance they were enforcing. The police had orders not to permit bathing in the River Seine, but 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 bathhouses bath-houses along the river, however, thou- j sands bathe daily. Much family linen is washed in the dozens of big laundry laun-dry boats moored to the banks in the center of the city. |