[muawiyah]

Since the situation (being watched at toilet) had been the case with virtually every king important enough to be known to history (that is, for thousands of years), I hardly think a King of France would have made such special note of it.

On the other hand, he might well have gotten a new one, and that fact, not the toilet, might have been worth noting.

[S0122017]

Since the situation (being watched at toilet) had been the case with virtually every king important enough to be known to history (that is, for thousands of years), I hardly think a King of France would have made such special note of it. On the other hand, he might well have gotten a new one, and that fact, not the toilet, might have been worth noting.

I find it difficult to believe.

First of all cultures differ hugely. From mythology it is clearly discernable that Aztecs did not think highly of faeces and I doubt they would have watched the king taking a sh*t. I also don't remember ever hearing something like that about Sumerians kings, Hebrew kings, Japanese emperor etc.

And as far as I remember from one docu on a castle, the english king went potty in a well protected room which doubled as an escape route. An audience would simply not have fitted in that room.

Secondly, the toilet is a modern invention :). Which is why I mentioned that the French king was proud, as he was one of the first Europeans to own one.