In the early 20 100 , a popular piece of art for the fashionable French abode was " L’Inconnue de la Seine " ( translation : " The Unknown Woman of the Seine " ) , a completely creepy-crawly death - masquerade party of a young woman whose trunk had been pull from the Seine River in Paris , sometime in the 1870s or 1880s .
As the ( slightly confutable ) story goes , a diagnostician at the morgue get hold the unnamed adult female ’s aspect enchanting , so he made a last mask — a plaster of Paris casting of her face . The resulting cast was widely multiply and became both a popularobjet d’art , as well as extremely influential to author , artists , and indeed new female child who set about to double her ( dead ) tone . ( And you thoughtyour friendswere goth in high school . )
Having aver all that , there are some question as to the real origin of the masque ( whether its source was indeed a dead woman or if it was a life mask from an unknown living woman who never verbalize up ) , but rent ’s just pose with the standard story and see how creepy it induce , shall we ? As Wikipediaexplains(emphasis add ):
But await , it fuck off creepy-crawly : Have you choose a CPR class ? Then perhaps you ’ve locked lips with L’Inconnue ; in 1958 , the woman ’s typeface was used on the first CPR doll , dubbedRescue Annie . Some have thus called hers " the most kissed face of all meter , " despite all these kisses take place roughly 80 year after her decease . No , not creepy-crawly in the svelte .
" L’Inconnue de la Seine " was a major inspiration for artists of all kinds . In"Influence and Authenticity of l’Inconnue de la Seine " by Anja Zeidler , it is give away that L’Inconnue influenced artists include Albert Camus , Rainer Maria Rilke , and Anaïs Nin , among others .
you could read more about L’Inconnue de la Seine and the Rescue Annie story fromSnopes .
