Napoleon's Sister's Breast Cast in Plaster

[snopes]

Expert male hands applied plaster to the young breast of Napoleon's sister to create an actual mould, according to a new investigation into the marble portrait of Pauline Bonaparte.

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/08/15/venus_his.html

[quote=snopes;287784]Expert male hands applied plaster to the young breast of Napoleon's sister to create an actual mould, according to a new investigation into the marble portrait of Pauline Bonaparte.>>

Lucky guy that sculptor!! Paulinel was a drop dead beauty.

Originally Posted by snopes

Expert male hands applied plaster to the young breast of Napoleon's sister to create an actual mould, according to a new investigation into the marble portrait of Pauline Bonaparte.

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/08/15/venus_his.html

Lucky guy that sculptor. Pauline was a drop dead beauty.

There are wine glasses at Versailles modeled after the breasts of Marie Antoinette.

[Steve]

Originally Posted by Adina

Lucky guy that sculptor. Pauline was a drop dead beauty.

There are wine glasses at Versailles modeled after the breasts of Marie Antoinette.

Well, snopes.com covers something similar on this page:http://www.snopes.com/business/origins/champagne.asp

I'm curious how you found out about the wine glasses. Did you see them? It'd be an interesting origin of the legend if it's so.

Originally Posted by Steve

Well, snopes.com covers something similar on this page:http://www.snopes.com/business/origins/champagne.asp

I'm curious how you found out about the wine glasses. Did you see them? It'd be an interesting origin of the legend if it's so.

I was visiting Paris alone and took a bus trip to Versailles. My seat mate was an antique deal from San Francisco. We walked through Versailles together and when we got to the glasses, he told me.

BUT...I just read a legend which said it was untrue and that the same claim had been made for Pompadour and DuBarry - both mistressees of Louis 15, grandfather-in-law to Marie Antoinette and also for the Empress Josephine. Seems timing was wrong for all of them. Wine glasses made before any of them were born.

OTOH: my seat mate was not one to speak lightly of "rumours" and it is possible that instead of wine glasses they might have been dessert glasses. The shape is certainly that of a breast.