Victor Noir - Revision history

Robert Brockway at 09:51, 27 January 2025

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Robert Brockway at 06:19, 28 April 2024

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Robert Brockway at 02:26, 11 April 2024

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Robert Brockway at 01:11, 5 March 2024

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Robert Brockway at 01:11, 5 March 2024

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Robert Brockway at 01:02, 5 March 2024

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Robert Brockway at 01:02, 5 March 2024

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Robert Brockway at 07:55, 27 March 2023

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 The sculpture has a very noticeable protuberance in Noir's trousers. This has made it one of the most popular memorials for women to visit in the famous cemetery. The myth says that placing a flower in the upturned top hat after kissing the statue on the lips and rubbing its genital area will enhance fertility, bring a blissful sex life, or, in some versions, a husband within the year. As a result of the legend, those particular components of the otherwise verdigris (grey-green oxidized bronze) statue are rather well-worn and shiny, as are the tips of the boots.
-In 2004 a fence was erected around the statue of Noir, to deter superstitious people from touching the statue. However, due to supposed protests from the "female population of Paris", in fact led by French TV anchor Péri Cochin, it was torn down again.
+In 2004 a fence was erected around the statue of Noir, to deter superstitious people from touching the statue. However, due to supposed protests from the "female population of Paris", led by French TV anchor Péri Cochin, it was torn down again.
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 [[File:Dalou_-_tombeau_de_Victor_Noir_-_1.jpg|thumb|Sculpture of Mr Noir showing the genital area polished from centuries of rubbing by women.]]
-[[File:GH03L9zWoAA5THH.jpeg|thumb|A woman straddling the scuplture of Victor Noir, apparently hoping for imcreased fertility.  The woman's attire suggests that she has attended a funeral at the cemetery.]]
+[[File:GH03L9zWoAA5THH.jpeg|thumb|A woman straddling the sculpture of Victor Noir, apparently hoping for increased fertility.  The woman's attire suggests that she has attended a funeral at the cemetery.]]
 [[Victor Noir]] (27 July 1848 – 11 January 1870) was a French journalist. After he was shot and killed by Prince Pierre Bonaparte, a cousin of the French Emperor Napoleon III (r. 1852–1870), Noir became a symbol of opposition to the imperial regime.

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 [[File:Dalou_-_tombeau_de_Victor_Noir_-_1.jpg|thumb|Sculpture of Mr Noir showing the genital area polished from centuries of rubbing by women.]]
-[[File:GH03L9zWoAA5THH.jpeg|thumb|A woman straddling the scuplture of Victor Noir, apparently hoping for imcreased fertility.]]
+[[File:GH03L9zWoAA5THH.jpeg|thumb|A woman straddling the scuplture of Victor Noir, apparently hoping for imcreased fertility.  The woman's attire suggests that she has attended a funeral at the cemetery.]]
 [[Victor Noir]] (27 July 1848 – 11 January 1870) was a French journalist. After he was shot and killed by Prince Pierre Bonaparte, a cousin of the French Emperor Napoleon III (r. 1852–1870), Noir became a symbol of opposition to the imperial regime.

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	[[File:GH03L9zWoAA5THH.jpeg\|thumb\|A woman straddling the scuplture of Victor Noir, apparently hoping for imcreased fertility.]]		[[File:GH03L9zWoAA5THH.jpeg\|thumb\|A woman straddling the scuplture of Victor Noir, apparently hoping for imcreased fertility.]]

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 [[File:GH03L9zWoAA5THH.jpeg|thumb|A woman straddling the scuplture of Victor Noir, apparently hoping for imcreased fertility.]]
-[[Victor Noir]] (27 July 1848 – 11 January 1870) was a French journalist. After he was shot and killed by Prince Pierre Bonaparte, a cousin of the French Emperor Napoleon III (r. 1852–1870), Noir became a symbol of opposition to the imperial regime. His tomb in Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris has become a fertility symbol.
+[[Victor Noir]] (27 July 1848 – 11 January 1870) was a French journalist. After he was shot and killed by Prince Pierre Bonaparte, a cousin of the French Emperor Napoleon III (r. 1852–1870), Noir became a symbol of opposition to the imperial regime.
-A life-sized bronze statue was sculpted by Jules Dalou to mark his grave, portrayed in a realistic style as though he had just fallen on the street, dropping his hat which is depicted beside him.
+A life-sized bronze statue was sculpted by Jules Dalou to mark his grave in Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris.  Mr Noir is portrayed in a realistic style as though he had just fallen on the street, dropping his hat which is depicted beside him.
 The sculpture has a very noticeable protuberance in Noir's trousers. This has made it one of the most popular memorials for women to visit in the famous cemetery. The myth says that placing a flower in the upturned top hat after kissing the statue on the lips and rubbing its genital area will enhance fertility, bring a blissful sex life, or, in some versions, a husband within the year. As a result of the legend, those particular components of the otherwise verdigris (grey-green oxidized bronze) statue are rather well-worn and shiny, as are the tips of the boots.

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		+	[[File:GH03L9zWoAA5THH.jpeg\|thumb\|A woman straddling the scuplture of Victor Noir, apparently hoping for improved fertility.]]

	[[Victor Noir]] (27 July 1848 – 11 January 1870) was a French journalist. After he was shot and killed by Prince Pierre Bonaparte, a cousin of the French Emperor Napoleon III (r. 1852–1870), Noir became a symbol of opposition to the imperial regime. His tomb in Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris has become a fertility symbol.		[[Victor Noir]] (27 July 1848 – 11 January 1870) was a French journalist. After he was shot and killed by Prince Pierre Bonaparte, a cousin of the French Emperor Napoleon III (r. 1852–1870), Noir became a symbol of opposition to the imperial regime. His tomb in Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris has become a fertility symbol.

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