Time Magazine

Time Magazine, 1999

Tens of thousands of internet surfers missed out on a chance to see French stunner Laetitia sashaying half-naked down the runway when they overloaded the Victoria's Secret website early in the year. But anyone still desperate for a glimpse can jet over to France, where the Association of French Mayors picked Laetitia as the new model for thousands of busts of the national symbol Marianne --the partly draped heroine leading the rabble over the barricades in the 1830 Delacroix painting.