The Legend of the Unknown Woman

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According to Eric Naddo, owner of the Lorenzi Workshop, in 1914, Michel Lorenzi did an interview on French radio about the mask. In the interview, he said that the woman had never drowned. He said that actually she was a model and that so many painters had wanted her in their workshops at the same time they started making copies of her face.

When a toymaker and a doctor teamed up to make the world’s first CPR doll, they decided to make the doll’s face look like one specific woman – a woman who they thought had drowned. People call her l’Inconnue de la Seine, or the Unknown Woman of the Seine.

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