
L'Inconnue de la Seine (literally: The unknown woman of the Siene) was an unidentified young woman who was found dead in the Siene River in the 1880s. It is assumed she was a victim of accidental drowning or suicide, as there were no signs of violence.
A pathologist at the morgue in Paris was so bowled-over by her beauty, he made a plaster cast of her face, and copies of her 'death mask' became ...