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The Unknown Woman of the Seine was a book written about the mysterious woman whose face was used for the Rescue Annie CPR doll. It was mentioned in the context of how many different versions of her story and her life were imagined and written about. The speaker specifically mentioned how the story of her jumping into the Seine River after being abandoned by a lover was a popular one.
People had written short stories, plays, books, and a movie about the woman.
— Episode: The Unknown Woman
Episode: The Unknown Woman
The Unknown Woman of the Seine was a book written about the mysterious woman whose face was used for the Rescue Annie CPR doll. It was mentioned in the context of how many different versions of her story and her life were imagined and written about. The speaker specifically mentioned how the story of her jumping into the Seine River after being abandoned by a lover was a popular one.
People had written short stories, plays, books, and a movie about the woman.
In the water, she says, what did I do? I'm losing my life because of a stupid man. So she's trying to get out of the Seine River, but the souls of the drowned people in the Seine River are catching her by her legs because they saw that she was beautiful.
She was either pregnant and drunk, or she committed suicide because she was in love, or she was murdered and pushed in the water of the river.
Anne-Galle Salliot wrote a book about the stories of the unknown woman of the Seine.
I was then a student in Paris, so wandering around the streets of the Six Arrondissements, more precisely on the Rue Odeon, I came across a face in a window of a molder shop, the Lorenzi Molder Shop, and I realized, OK, she exists. She has a material existence.
I came and announced, and I asked her about the Inconnue de la Seine, and her reaction was, again, again!
I think there were probably plenty of women like her.
I think that when I first read about it, what mattered wasn't necessarily that it was true of this specific woman.
But the possibility or the story of a young woman taking her own life and ending up in the morgue felt very true.
So I didn't necessarily think that that woman did. But I felt that, I know that plenty of women did.