The Memoirs Of Madame Tussaud
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Madame Tussaud S Memoirs And Reminiscences Of France Forming An Abridged History Of The French Revolution
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Author : Marie Tussaud
language : en
Publisher: London : Saunders and Otley
Release Date : 1838
Madame Tussaud S Memoirs And Reminiscences Of France Forming An Abridged History Of The French Revolution written by Marie Tussaud and has been published by London : Saunders and Otley this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1838 with France categories.
The Memoirs Of Madame Tussaud
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
The Memoirs Of Madame Tussaud written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with France categories.
In her memoirs of 1838, Madame Marie Tussaud recounts how she was forced to take wax impressions of the severed heads of her royal friends Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. Then, with her head shaved, she awaited her own execution. Fortunate to survive, she travelled to England with her collection of macabre wax casts which resulted in the famous waxworks museum.
Madame Tussaud S Memoirs And Reminiscences Of France
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Author : Marie Tussaud
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
Madame Tussaud S Memoirs And Reminiscences Of France written by Marie Tussaud and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with France categories.
Memoirs And Reminiscences Of The French Revolution
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Author : Marie Tussaud
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1839
Memoirs And Reminiscences Of The French Revolution written by Marie Tussaud and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1839 with France categories.
Waxing Mythical
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Author : Kate Berridge
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
Waxing Mythical written by Kate Berridge and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Amusement parks categories.
Madame Tussaud is a name known all over the world. The queue to her exhibition is a landmark. Such is its phenomenal success, it has eclipsed the woman who started it all. But Marie Tussaud led a remarkable life. With grit and audacity she overcame reversals of fortune and built an extraordinary spectacle. Of lowly birth and uncertain paternity, Marie became apprentice to a charismatic showman in Paris who taught her the art of wax modelling. They plied their trade among a colourful cast of 'Italian singers, pastry cooks, restaurant keepers, marionettes, acrobats, giants, dwarves, ferocious beasts'. In her memoir she also claimed friendship with royals and revolutionaries including Marie Antoinette and Voltaire. But, as a born entrepreneur, did Marie's flair for publicity extend to moulding her own story? After the Revolution, she came to England and took her show on the road. She pursued the punishing lifestyle of the travelling show for many years and secured a lasting reputation in the Dickensian world of 19th century popular entertainment. More than a biography, this captivating cultural history plunges the reader into popular culture of the past; the escapist delights of canine cabaret, living skeletons, phantasmagoria and of course waxworks. It reveals a truth that Madame Tussaud understood and harnessed from the outset - the mass-market appeal of glamour and gore is enduring and universal.
Madame Tussaud
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Author : Kate Berridge
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2009-05-21
Madame Tussaud written by Kate Berridge and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-05-21 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Kate Berridge’s Madame Tussaud: A Life in Wax “celebrates a great pioneer of mass-market illusion, whose illusions eventually included herself.”* Millions have visited the museums that bear her name, yet few know much about Madame Tussaud. A celebrated artist, she had both a ringside seat at and a cameo role in the French Revolution. A victim and survivor of one of the most tumultuous times in history, this intelligent, pragmatic businesswoman has also had an indelible impact on contemporary culture, planting the seed of our obsession with celebrity. Kate Berridge tells this fascinating woman’s complete story for the first time, drawing upon a wealth of sources, including Tussaud’s memoirs and historical archives. It is a grand-scale success story, revealing how with sheer graft and grit a woman born in 1761 to an eighteen-year-old cook overcame extraordinary reversals of fortune to build the first and most enduring worldwide brand identified simply by reference to its founder’s name: Madame Tussaud’s. “A good story, like Berridge’s biography, is a blessing.” —Miami Herald “A rousing good read . . . [Berridge] presents us with a thorough understanding of the beginnings of popular culture.” —Vancouver Sun “Fascinating. . . . A vividly recreated history of an extreme time and the unusually determined woman who capitalized so effectively on it.” —Globe and Mail “Spectacular and spellbinding. . . . Thoughtful, original, never condescending, erudite, and packed with vivid and sometimes horrifying detail, it is a model of how cultural history should be written.” —*Sunday Times (London)
Madame Tussaud
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Author : Geri Walton
language : en
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Release Date : 2019-02-28
Madame Tussaud written by Geri Walton and has been published by Pen and Sword this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-28 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A “meticulously researched and deftly written biography” of the woman behind the famed wax museums, and their origins in the era of the French Revolution (Midwest Book Review). Madame Marie Tussaud is known worldwide for the chain of wax museums she started over two hundred years ago. Less known is that her original wax models were often of the famous and infamous people she personally knew during and after the French Revolution. These were people like Voltaire, Robespierre, and Napoleon—people who changed the world. Even more, the wax figures were depicted in scenes drawn from the horrors she experienced during the reign of terror in Paris during her early adult years. This book shows how the traumatic and cataclysmic experiences of Madame Tussaud’s early life became part of her legacy. She created a succession of scenes in wax, telling events as she personally experienced them. Her wax sculptures were visceral. She made them herself, at times from the living person’s head and at other times from the recently guillotined head of a former houseguest. As a result, people were drawn to her wax displays because they were the most intense way of experiencing those events themselves. This is the story not only of a unique artist, but of how one of history’s bloodiest events influenced her life and work.
Madame Tussaud
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Author : Teresa Ransom
language : en
Publisher: Sutton Publishing
Release Date : 2003
Madame Tussaud written by Teresa Ransom and has been published by Sutton Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The story of a woman whose work inspired one of London's greatest attractions. Born in Strasbourg, the young Marie Tussaud learned her skills from her mother's employer, Philippe Curtius. In 1780 she became tutor to King Louis XVI's sister and for eight years prior to the Revolution lived at the court in Versailles. In Paris throughout the Revolution, she was often in extreme danger. Incredibly, she was forced to make death masks from the decapitated heads of her friends who fell to the guillotine. In 1802, she opened her first exhibition at the Lyceum theatre in London. With modelled figures such as Napoleon and Josephine and other notables from the Revolution, her exhibition was very popular. She also had the guillotine blade that severed Marie Antoinette's head. For the next 26 years Madame Tussaud toured England and Scotland with her Waxwork Exhibition, until she established her base in Baker Street in 1835. She had always had a "separate room", for the most gruesome of the models, which in 1846 Punch dubbed "The Chamber of Horrors". The name stuck. She died in 1850 and in 1884, Tussaud's grandsons moved the exhibition to Marylebone Road, where it remains.
Madame Tussaud
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Author : Pamela Pilbeam
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2006-08-10
Madame Tussaud written by Pamela Pilbeam and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-08-10 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Tussaud's catered for the public's fascination with monarchy, whether Henry VIII and his wives or Queen Victoria, as well as for their love of history, acting as an accessible and enjoyable museum. This work looks at Madame Tussaud herself and her exhibition as part of the wider history of wax modelling and of popular entertainment.
Memoirs And Reminiscences Of The French Revolution
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Author : Marie Tussaud
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1839
Memoirs And Reminiscences Of The French Revolution written by Marie Tussaud and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1839 with France categories.