Madame Tussaud

Author : Michelle Moran
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0857380737
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Madame Tussaud written by Michelle Moran and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2011-03-03 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paris, 1788. Marie is a young woman in love with her oldest friend and neighbour, Henri. But she is also a determined businesswoman, eager to see her family's waxwork museum keep them safe and solvent. Her gift for modelling faces in wax brings her to Versailles, where she must teach the king's sister her skill. But the coming revolution will place Marie, her family and all of Paris in grave danger. As the monarchy is overthrown and the guillotine becomes a fixture in French life, Marie is expected to show her patriotism by making death masks from the severed heads of every key figure killed as the Reign of Terror begins and France enters its darkest time. How will Marie survive the Revolution? Who will survive it with her? And just how will this girl come to be known as the woman behind one of the most famous museums in the world?

Author : Geri Walton
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1526734095
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Madame Tussaud written by Geri Walton and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2019-02-28 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Pamela Pilbeam
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9781852855116
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Madame Tussaud written by Pamela Pilbeam and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2006-08-10 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Kathleen Benner Duble
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1440581177
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Madame Tussaud's Apprentice written by Kathleen Benner Duble and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-07-04 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1789, with the starving French people on the brink of revolution, orphaned Celie Rosseau, an amazing artist and a very clever thief, runs wild with her protector, Algernon, trying to join the idealistic freedom fighters of Paris. But when she is caught stealing from none other than the king's brother and the lady from the waxworks, Celie must use her drawing talent to buy her own freedom or die for her crimes. Forced to work for Madame Tussaud inside the opulent walls that surround Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, Celie is shocked to find that the very people she imagined to be monsters actually treat her with kindness. But the thunder of revolution still rolls outside the gates, and Celie is torn between the cause of the poor and the safety of the rich. When the moment of truth arrives, will she turn on Madame Tussaud or betray the boy she loves? From the hidden garrets of the starving poor to the jeweled halls of Versailles, Madame Tussaud's Apprentice is a sweeping story of danger, intrigue, and young love, set against one of the most dramatic moments in history.

Author : John Theodore Tussaud
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 1465614753
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Romance of Madame Tussaud's written by John Theodore Tussaud and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a fascinating book and its fascination consists in two things attaching to its subject: first that the famous collection of modelled portraits which has become a sort of national institution in England under the name of “Madame Tussaud’s” has its roots in the greatest period of modern history, the French Revolution; second, in that the complete and growing record has passed through so many changes and has yet survived. Even though the famous collection had dealt with nothing more than the main figures of the Revolution and of the great wars that followed it, it would have been a possession of permanent and lasting historical value. I am not sure that if it had so remained, stopped short at the effigies of those now long dead, it would not now receive a greater respect. It might well in that case have become something recognised as a national possession, protected and preserved by the national government. For the prolongation of the record right on into our own time, while it very greatly increases the real value of the collection as a piece of historical evidence, yet deprives it of that illusion which men cannot avoid where history is concerned: the illusion that things thoroughly passed are in some way greater and of more consequence than contemporary things. This continuity of the great collection—so long as it is maintained with judgment in selection and without too much yielding to momentary fame is none the less a thing to be very thankful for. Already those of us who, like the present writer, are well on into middle age, can judge how the younger generation is beginning to regard as historical these simulacra, which, when they were first modelled, seemed in our own youth insignificant because they were contemporary. To our children (who are now grown and are young men and women), Disraeli, Gladstone, Bismarck—all the group that were old but living men in the eighties (Disraeli died at the beginning of them, Bismarck long after their close)—are what to us were Louis-Philippe, Garibaldi, Palmerston, and the process properly continued will be invaluable. We have already more than 130 years of record. There is no reason why it should not extend to the two centuries.

Author : Lionel Lambourne
Publisher : Michael Joseph
ISBN 13 : 9780863501692
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Madame Tussaud's Book of Victorian Masks written by Lionel Lambourne and published by Michael Joseph. This book was released on 1987 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: REDISCOVER THE PLEASURES OF VICTORIAN PARTY AMUSEMENT BY PRESSING OUT THESE 24 FACSIMILE REPRODUCTIONS OF FULL SIZED MASKS FROM THE ARCHIVES OF MADAME TUSSAUDS AND THE STOCKHOLM LEKSAKSMUSEUM. LIONEL LAMBOURNE, ASSISTANT KEEP OF PAINTINGS AT THE V & A MUSEUM CONTRIBUTES AN INFORMATIVE INTRODUCTION, MAKING THIS A BOOK OF COLOURFUL NOSTALGIA AND INSTANT AMUSEMEN

Author : Pauline Chapman
Publisher : Constable & Robinson
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Madame Tussaud's Chamber of Horrors written by Pauline Chapman and published by Constable & Robinson. This book was released on 1984 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : André-Paul Duchâteau
Publisher : Cinebook
ISBN 13 : 1849189757
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fascinating Madame Tussaud written by André-Paul Duchâteau and published by Cinebook. This book was released on 2013-01-22T00:00:00+01:00 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paris, 1793. Marie Crossholz manages the wax museum set up by her father. In exchange for bribes, some executioners allow her to mould the faces of guillotined aristocrats... After the French Revolution, Marie Crossholz becomes Mrs Tussaud. Disappointed by the marriage, she leaves for London with the ambition to create a wax museum there. New fights and other tumultuous adventures await her... Thirty years later, in 1835, she inaugurates the famous Tussaud Museum of Baker Street in London, which today continues to grow with new celebrities and attracts millions of visitors!

Author : Edward Carey
Publisher : Gallic Books
ISBN 13 : 9781910709535
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Little written by Edward Carey and published by Gallic Books. This book was released on 2019-05-16 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Export edition (World excluding US and Canada). From little beginnings: the extraordinary story of a singular, diminutive crumb of a servant girl turned entertainment mogul.

Author : Marie Tussaud
Publisher : London : Saunders and Otley
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Madame Tussaud's Memoirs and Reminiscences of France, Forming an Abridged History of the French Revolution written by Marie Tussaud and published by London : Saunders and Otley. This book was released on 1838 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: