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How the story of ‘the girl of 100 portraits’ inspired two books

After her body was found near the Seine in September 1949, city police wrote off the young woman, immortalised as “the girl of 100 portraits”, as loose, libertine and – worse – an unmarried mother.

✦ Extractive summary — built from the sources' own reporting•From 1 source•1 min read•Updated November 8, 2026, 11:00 AM UTC

They closed their investigation after just four months having made little effort to find her killer.

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