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  2. Marie Tussaud - Wikipedia

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    Anna Maria "Marie" Tussaud (French pronunciation: [maʁi tyso]; née Grosholtz; 1 December 1761 – 16 April 1850), commonly known as Madame Tussaud, was a French artist known for her wax sculptures and Madame Tussauds, the wax museum she founded in London.

  3. Madame Tussauds - Wikipedia

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    Madame Tussauds (UK: / t uː ˈ s ɔː d z /, US: / t uː ˈ s oʊ z /) [1] [N. 1] is a wax museum founded in London in 1835 by the French wax sculptor Marie Tussaud. [2] [3] One of the early main attractions was the Chamber of Horrors, which appeared in advertising in 1843.

  4. Chamber of Horrors (Madame Tussauds) - Wikipedia

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    This part of the exhibition was in the basement of the building and included wax heads made from the death masks of victims of the French Revolution including Marat, Robespierre, King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, who were modelled by Marie Tussaud herself at the time of their deaths or execution, and more recent figures of murderers and other infamous and notorious criminals.

  5. Wax museum - Wikipedia

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    Wax museum in 1792 with the three fathers of the French Revolution, Franklin, Voltaire and Rousseau, installed at Elysium. (musée de la Révolution française) In European courts including that of France the making of posed wax figures became popular. Antoine Benoist (1632–1717) was a French court painter and sculptor in wax to King Louis XIV.

  6. Mysteries at the Museum - Wikipedia

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    Mysteries at the Museum is an hour-long television program on the Travel Channel which features museum artifacts of ... "French Connection ... Madame Tussaud; WD-40"

  7. Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois - Wikipedia

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    Born in Paris, Collot left his home in the rue St. Jacques in his teens to join the travelling theatres of provincial France.His moderately successful career as an actor, supplemented by a vigorous outpouring of works for the stage, took him from Bordeaux in the south of France to Nantes in the west and Lille in the north and even into the Dutch Republic, where he met his wife.

  8. Jean-Paul Marat - Wikipedia

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    The curé approached Madame Tussaud's waxworks, who agreed to purchase Marat's bathtub for 100,000 francs, but the curé's acceptance was lost in the mail. After rejecting other offers, including one from Phineas Barnum , the curé sold the tub for 5,000 francs to the Musée Grévin , where it remains today. [ 75 ]

  9. List of wax figures displayed at Madame Tussauds museums

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    A waxwork of Madame Tussaud herself. The following is a list of wax figures which are currently displayed or have been displayed at one of the Madame Tussauds museums.