Émilie Marie Bouchaud or more commonly known as polaire

Polaire “Pole Star” was the stage name of French singer and actress Émilie Marie Bouchaud (1874–1939). Born in Algeria.
 when tightlacing among women was in style, she was famous for her tiny, corsetted waist, which was  a circumference no greater than 16 inches. This made her large bust look more prominent.  Her corseted waist was once measured at 14 inches!
       
The Frech poet Jean Lorrain  told Polaire,
 “The tiny slip of a woman that you know, with the waist slender to the point of pain, of screaming out loud, of breaking in two, in a spasmically tight bodice, the prettiest slimness …What a devilish mimic, what a coffee-mill and what a belly-dancer! Yellow skirt tucked high, gloved in open-work stockings, Polaire skips, flutters, wriggles, arches from the hips, the back, the belly, mimes every kind of shock, twists, coils, rears, twirls…trembling like a stuck wasp, miaows, faints to what music and what words! The house, frozen with stupor, forgets to applaud.”