Victor Noir’s recumbent body at Père Lachaise cemetery
Victor Noir’s recumbent body at Père Lachaise cemetery
In the Parisian cemetery of Père Lachaise, the tomb of Victor Noir has become over time a symbol of fertility for many women, who regularly come to touch the sex, face and feet of the bronze recumbent. Faced with such behavior, the City of Paris has set up protection barriers but the deputy mayor responsible for parks and cemeteries, Yves Contassot, came in person to remove these barriers and call for respect for graves. An anti-bonapartist journalist, Victor Noir was assassinated in 1870 at the age of 22. He owes his posthumous virility to a sculptor a little too generous as to the representation of his genitals.
Producteur: France 3 Paris - Journalist : Salique, Pierre Yves - Photo Journalist : Hunzinger, Emmanuelle - Participant : Contassot, Yves
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19/20 Paris Ile De France Edition - Producteur: France 3 Paris
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