do people in france only shower weely?

When I was a student in France, I lived on a floor with mostly American students and the supervisor (a Frenchman) complained bitterly that we took showers daily and used so much hot water. French women are more likely than men to shower daily. Many French ppl shower every other day or less frequently. It is true that perfumes were popularized in the Middle Ages where some Europeans (not just French ppl) believed that bathing was unhealthy and bad for the skin. Also, in France, it is acceptable to wear the same clothes 2, even 3 days in a row (which is what I do when I visit Europe). In the US, I do not shower daily. Depending on how much a person perspires, daily showering is not necessary IMHO.

That old chestnut!

People in France did not shower when they had no running water (like in most other countries) and the rich used perfumes to disguise smells, but this is ancient history. French people are very hygienic, even if they have not got a shower in their home because they live in a very old property. Some prefer baths but in any case you can still be clean and wash in an ordinary handbasin, but most houses these days do have showers and those who have a shower do use them much more often than once a week!

Likewise French people are very houseproud and their homes are immaculate.

Your teacher can't have gone to France in recent years or he is telling porkies.

Is he your history teacher? Back in the days of Louis XIV in Versailles (17th / 18th century) they never took a shower. I once had a guided tour to Versailles and the guide said that they never used the bath, always using perfume and strange tools to scratch under the wigs as they were full of fleas.

But the guide seems to have used the shower, and all the French I know do that on a regular basis (regular meaning every day or second day)

LucaL's guide was either incompetent or was kidding them. Back in the days of Louis XIV they did take frequent baths - not showers because showers did not exist, of course. The biggest and the most coveted, when the palace of Versailles was first opened, was Appartement des Bains, on the ground floor. It was given to the lover of Louis XIV, Mme Montespan. Then both she and the king moved upstairs, and when he got tired of her, she moved back down there again. It was called so because it contained a Roman bath - rooms for washing, resting, and one with a big marble pool, for people who already washed themselves to sit in (kind of a modern swimming pool). The king himself and his brother were rubbed with spirits every morning (equivalent of a modern deodorant or sponging) and changed

their linen thrice a day), Louis de La Valliere, the first mistress of the king, was "always neat" (the wife of the king's brother, Madame, wrote in her memoirs), Mme Montespan was lax on the point of washing. The Queen, Louis' XIV wife, loved long baths, and there is a note, written from her to the King, in which she asked him to use his bath, since they were repairing her own bathroom; the permission was granted. They used special aromatic soaps, made from olive oil. The palace at Versailles had more than 100 bathrooms, all in all.

Of course it was different for poor people, plumbing did not exist then, and they had to carry large heavy buckets of water from wells, soap was expensive and they used ashes as a means to wash and do the laundry, so it wasn't easy for them to clean themselves. Next time, try to invest your money in a better guide.

As for today, it's purely a matter of personal preference. There are people with good hygienic habits, and people with bad, and it's the same all over the world.

of direction it relies upon on the guy yet in fact that the fee of heating water in Europe has a tendency to be plenty bigger than in the US. So human beings have a tendency to be greater cautious approximately dropping capability. So its no longer constrained to the French. My English grandparents theory the yank habit of taking very long showers each and every evening to be very wasteful.

I remember people smelling of sweat in the metro. But that was a very long time ago! Things have changed - maybe he hasn't been to France in a good few years?

French people do shower everyday and are hygienic. Your teacher is just ignorant.

I have a question: Did he also tell you we eat frogs and snails everyday?

I shower everyday, like most people... Your teacher is quite ignorant

Your teacher is a moron.

The French shower everyday.

the french shower everyday