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About Madame Tussaud
from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Tussaud
Marie Tussaud was born 1 December 1761 in Strasbourg, France.[1] Her father, Joseph Grosholtz, was killed in the Seven Years' War just two months before Marie was born. At the age of six her mother, Anne-Marie Walder,[2] took her to Bern, in Switzerland. There the family moved into the home of local doctor Philippe Curtius (1741–1794), for whom Anne-Marie acted as housekeeper.
from https://www.britannica.com/biography/Marie-Tussaud
Her early life was spent first in Bern and then in Paris, where she learned the art of wax modeling from Philippe Curtius, whose two celebrated wax museums she inherited upon his death in 1794. From 1780 until the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789, she served as art tutor at Versailles to Louis XVI’s sister, Madame Élisabeth, and she was later imprisoned as a royalist. According to her memoirs, during the Reign of Terror she had the gruesome responsibility of making death masks from heads—frequently those of her friends—freshly severed by the guillotine.
Her marriage in 1795 to François Tussaud, an engineer from Mâcon, was not a success; and in 1802 she took her two sons and her collection of wax models to England. She toured the British Isles for 33 years before finally establishing a permanent home in Baker Street, London, where she worked until eight years before her death. (In 1884 Madame Tussaud’s moved to the Marylebone Road, London.)
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Madame Tussaud's Timeline
| 1761 |
December 1, 1761
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Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France
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| 1796 |
1796
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Paris, Seine, France
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1798
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1800
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| 1850 |
April 16, 1850
Age 88
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London, United Kingdom
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