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the afterlife
In the late 1880s the body of a 16yrold girl was pulled from the Seine. She was apparently a suicide (her body showed no marks of violence) but her beauty and her smile led a Paris pathologist to order a plaster death mask of her face. In the romantic atmosphere of fin de siècle the girl’s face became an ideal of feminine beauty. In 1958 the anonymous girl’s features were used to model a first-aid mannequin, on which thousands have practiced CPR. She has “the most kissed face of all time.”
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