Breast replacement – for a statue
Summary of story from Daily Mail, April 2, 2011
A small French town has replaced a patriotic statue in its town hall – because its breasts were deemed too big.
The mayor of Neuville-en-Ferrain, in northern France, swapped the busty model with a more modest replacement after locals in the town ‘started to gossip’.
The terracotta bust of Marianne – the traditional female embodiment of the French Republic in a Phrygian cap – was an original work by a local artist, installed in 2007 at Neuville-en-Ferrain’s town hall.
But a town hall employee, who did not wish to be named, said: ‘Remarks were made, during weddings for example.
‘It was making people gossip.’
Mayor of Neuville-en-Ferrain, Gerard Cordon, persuaded councillors to approve 900 euros (£795) in this year’s budget to buy a replacement, a more conventional bust of Marianne modelled on the “statuesque” French model Laetitia Casta.
WVoN comment: Why is it that breasts always seem to be too big or too small, but never just right as they are?
“Too big” for what?! If breasts were not continually sexualised, even on a flipping statue, then there wouldn’t be anything too big or too small about it. My mind boggles as to what the villagers had to gossip about, concerning a statue!