Ep 93 - L’Inconnue de la Seine Part 1 - The Most Kissed Woman in the World
We’re kicking off spooky season with what may be one of the eeriest true-history stories we’ve had on the show.
In this two part series, Rowan presents the story of L’Inconnue de la Seine or, The Drowned Mona Lisa. Our hosts discuss the Victorian “culture of looking”, the famous Paris Morgue, death masks, drowning…and how it’s possible that they’ve both kissed a woman from the 19th century (psst…you’ve kissed her too!)
Sources
Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Inconnue_de_la_Seine
The Guardian
Goodreads
https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/1183550-something-wicked-this-way-comes
Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/cpr-doll-resusci-annie-face.html
William Gaddis
http://williamgaddis.org/recognitions/inconnue/index.shtml
Dusty Old Thing
https://dustyoldthing.com/victorian-death-mask-cpr-doll/
How Stuff Works
https://science.howstuffworks.com/science-vs-myth/afterlife/death-mask4.htm
https://history.howstuffworks.com/european-history/19th-century-paris-morgue.htm
New Zealand Herald
New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/20/world/europe/paris-mask-picasso-truffaut.html
Cocosse Journal
http://www.cocosse-journal.org/2020/06/the-unknown-woman-of-seine-most-kissed.html
Snopes
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/cpr-annie/
The BNJ
https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m4554
Haunted Palace
https://hauntedpalaceblog.wordpress.com/2017/02/07/memento-mori-victorian-post-mortem-photography/
Laerdal
https://laerdal.com/us/products/simulation-training/resuscitation-training/resusci-anne-qcpr/
The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/dec/01/france.art
JStor
https://www.jstor.org/stable/1770855?seq=1
https://daily.jstor.org/the-paris-morgue-provided-ghoulish-entertainment/
Typepad
https://sarahdeming.typepad.com/spiralstaircase/2007/12/the-most-kissed.html
Atlas Obscura
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/paris-morgue-public-viewing
