How the Hell Did the Guy Live So Long Back Then?

Louis XIV, 72 years, I think. Insanity. He was a child when he assumed the throne of France. People who lived to them in their 90s 200, 300 years ago were probably one of the very small people who were fit. They were nearly angels owned. There were nearly as many people who once they reached old age got to really old age but at three or four hundred years ago.

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