biography
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Tussaud, Marie
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née Grosholtz
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pronunciation:
[tuhsawd], Fr [tüsoh
| sex:
| female
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| lived:
| (1761–1850)
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| biography:
| Modeller in wax, born in Strasbourg, NE France. She was apprenticed to her uncle, Dr Curtius, in Paris, and inherited his wax museums after his death. After the Revolution, she attended the guillotine to take death masks from the severed heads. She toured Britain with her life-size portrait waxworks, and in 1835 set up a permanent exhibition in Baker St, London. It was burnt down in 1925, and re-opened in Marylebone Rd in 1928. The exhibition still contains her own handiwork, notably images of Marie Antoinette, Napoleon, and Burke and Hare in the Chamber of Horrors. |
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