The Mask of Anne Gal Salio

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For years, Anne Gal Salio refused to buy a copy of the unknown woman's face. It was only when she moved away from Paris that she finally bought one. She brought her copy of the mask into the studio when we spoke. When you look at her, she does look as though she's just emerged from the water. There is something very lifelike about her.

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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