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L’inconnue de la Seine ~ “The Unknown Woman of the Seine”
“The most kissed face of all time,” she’s been called—but hers isn’t quite the shattering, cross-temporal love story you might imagine. In the late 1880s, a young woman’s body was pulled from the Seine River in Paris, and though her identity was never discovered, a pathologist at the local morgue saw to it that her face would never be forgotten. Stricken by her frozen expression, the pathologist made a plaster cast of the young girl’s features—a death mask—which was widely reproduced and soon became a de rigueur wall adornment among Paris’ bohemian society. (Rumor has it everyone from Vladimir Nabokov to Albert Camus owned a copy of the mask, the latter who likened her smile to the Mona Lisa). Immortalized by her last look, the girl became known as L’inconnue de la Seine (“The Unknown Woman of the Seine”) and over a century later, her face was used as the first CPR doll—thus earning her nickname for the world’s most-kissed visage.
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