Romantic story of 16-year-old drowned from Paris

Dummy for practicing skills in cardiopulmonary resuscitation sign of tens of thousands medical students and rescuers. However, few of them know, whose face was once used to create the dummy. Meanwhile, this story is very romantic: this is the story of how the long-lost girl became a Saviour for thousands of people.

"Stranger of the Seine" — unknown drowned, whose body was found in the Seine in the nineteenth century. Nobody famous during his lifetime, after her death, she unexpectedly became famous: made with her face to identify a plaster cast was suddenly fascinated artists beauty and tranquility.

Despite all efforts, the little girl managed to learn. Judging by the lack of evidence of abuse, she killed herself. According to pathologists, it was no more than 16 years. However, the unknown beauty has become a favorite character artists of the era of decadence.

The mask of "stranger of the Seine," at the turn of the nineteenth century were a popular souvenir of Paris, which was decorated her apartment. Albert Camus compared her peaceful smile with a smile of Mona Lisa.

"Stranger of the Seine" became the heroine of many of the paintings and novels, the authors tried to solve the mystery of her identity and destiny. She even influenced the fashion of Paris: many Parisians tried to make their faces similarity with the girl.

In the mid-twentieth century, the fame, the girls broke out with renewed vigor. When in the late 1950s, Peter Safar and Osmund of many ways created the first dummy for CPR, they were used to his face "a stranger from the Seine."

Subsequently, this person has become a standard for all of the produced mannequins, dubbed "raise Anna". It was called "the most kissed woman in the world".

And now, "the stranger of the Seine" remains the face of manikins for resuscitation training.

The long-lost girl continues to save lives.

Her fate acquired finality and meaning not only in the pages of the novels, but in life.