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    Marie Tussaud was born in France in 1761 and learned the art of wax modeling from her uncle Philippe Curtius who owned a wax museum. She became his assistant and created wax figures of famous people she met, including Voltaire and Rousseau. During the French Revolution, she was forced to make casts of guillotine victims. She later married and moved to England with her waxworks, settling in London in 1835 where her museum became famous for its celebrity wax figures, including 13 of Michael Jackson.

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    Marie Tussaud was born in France in 1761 and learned the art of wax modeling from her uncle Philippe Curtius who owned a wax museum. She became his assistant and created wax figures of famous people she met, including Voltaire and Rousseau. During the French Revolution, she was forced to make casts of guillotine victims. She later married and moved to England with her waxworks, settling in London in 1835 where her museum became famous for its celebrity wax figures, including 13 of Michael Jackson.

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    Marie Tussaud was born in France in 1761 and learned the art of wax modeling from her uncle Philippe Curtius who owned a wax museum. She became his assistant and created wax figures of famous people she met, including Voltaire and Rousseau. During the French Revolution, she was forced to make casts of guillotine victims. She later married and moved to England with her waxworks, settling in London in 1835 where her museum became famous for its celebrity wax figures, including 13 of Michael Jackson.

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    Marie Tussaud was born in France in 1761 and learned the art of wax modeling from her uncle Philippe Curtius who owned a wax museum. She became his assistant and created wax figures of famous people she met, including Voltaire and Rousseau. During the French Revolution, she was forced to make casts of guillotine victims. She later married and moved to England with her waxworks, settling in London in 1835 where her museum became famous for its celebrity wax figures, including 13 of Michael Jackson.

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    So, without further ado (without wasting words) , I present you…

    There are many branch offices of this museum around the world
    Maria Tussaud was born in Strasburg(Fr) in 1761. She never knew her father, a German soldier
    named Grosholtz, who died two months before Marie was born. Her young widowed mother brought the
    child up at Berne in Switzerland, where she went to be housekeeper to a doctor named Philippe Curtius, who
    had a talent for wax modelling and ran a museum of his waxwork heads and busts.

    It was from this ‘uncle’ that Marie learned her art as a child and after he had moved to Paris, where
    he scored a fashionable success, she and her mother joined him and she became his assistant. As a result, she
    met many of the leading French aristocrats and intellectuals of the day and she modelled both Voltaire and
    Rousseau from life. In the 1780s she was employed to teach Madame Elizabeth, Louis XVI’s sister, and met
    the King and many of the royal family.

    Marie was forced to make casts of the heads of victims of the guillotine, many of whom had been her
    uncle’s friends and dinner guests.
    Curtius died in 1794 and left Marie his collection of waxworks. A year later she married a man
    named François(франсуа) Tussaud. They had two sons, but the marriage was not a success and Marie never
    saw him again after 1802, when she took the boys and her waxworks across the Channel and began years of
    successful touring round the towns of England, Scotland and Ireland before settling down in London in
    1835, on the corner of Baker Street and Portman Square. When Queen Victoria was crowned in 1837
    Madame Tussaud’s put on a magnificent display of the scene. The following year Marie’s memoirs were
    published, but contained little about her private life. She was a talkative person, but was always reticent
    about her experiences during the Terror.

    Besides the waxworks, historical relics on view at Madame Tussaud’s included one of the blades
    from the guillotine obtained from the executioner Sanson himself and objects associated with Napoleon.
    There was also the Special Room devoted to murderers and bloodshed, which from 1846 became the
    Chamber of Horrors. Marie’s sons, Joseph and Francis, joined her in the business, but well into her eighties
    Madame herself liked to sit at the entrance to her exhibition rooms and collect the public’s shillings. A
    painting of 1845 shows her at her collecting table in a voluminous black dress and black, lace-fringed
    bonnet, her shrewd blue eyes staring measuringly at the onlooker through the spectacles perched on her long
    nose, as if she was appraising someone for a waxwork. Towards the end, as she began to suffer from severe
    asthma, she rediscovered her Roman Catholic faith. Her sons were at her bedside when she died and her last
    words were to beg them never to quarrel. She was buried in the Catholic chapel in the Fulham Road, where
    many French exiles had gone before her. Her coffin was subsequently moved to St Mary’s in Cadogan
    Street.
    Angelina Jolie
    Angelina wears a stunning evening gown and is striking her signature red carpet pose
    Angelina was separated from the wax figure of Brad Pitt following their high-profile separation in
    2016.
    Each of Jolie's tattoos is recreated in oil paint by the skilled Studios team
    Michael Jackson
    With over 750 million record sales, Michael Jackson was one of the most creative artists pop music
    has ever seen.
    Michael Jackson was totally unique and his iconic status made him one of the most popular stars at
    Madame Tussauds London.
    With 13 figures made for Madame Tussauds London, he is the most featured star ever, with only The
    Queen having been portrayed more often.
    The 'King Of Pop' Michael Jackson caused the road to close when he came to visit us in 1985.
    Thousands of fans waited outside to catch a glimpse of the superstar as he made a wax hand cast inside our
    attraction, which you can still see here to this day!

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