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	People and Peoples (M-P) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Marie Tussaud was born in 1760 in Switzerland.
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	Marie Tussaud - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Marie Tussaud (December 1, 1761 - April 16, 1850) is known for her wax sculptures and Madame Tussauds, the wax museum she setup in London.
		Even though Tussaud's head was already shaven for her execution, she was saved for her talent in wax work and employed to make death masks of the victims of the guillotine, some of which were personal friends of hers.
		In 1802 Marie Tussaud went to London together with her first son, Joseph, then 4 years old, her second son staying behind.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Marie_Tussaud (634 words)

	Madame Tussauds - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A sculpture of the Dalai Lama at Madame Tussauds in New York.
		Madame Tussauds is a wax museum in London, with branches in Amsterdam, Hong Kong (Victoria Peak), Las Vegas and New York City.
		Madame Tussaud (1761-1850), born Marie Grosholtz in Strasbourg, worked as a housekeeper for Dr. Philippe Curtius, a physician skilled in wax modelling.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Madame_Tussauds (559 words)

	TUSSAUD, MARIE - LoveToKnow Article on TUSSAUD, MARIE
		Her wax figures were successfully shown in the Strand on the site of the Lyceum theatre, and through the provinces, and finally the exhibition was established in permanent London quarters in Baker Street in 1833.
		She was succeeded by her son Francis Tussaud, he by his son Joseph, and he again by his son John Theodore Tussaud (b.
		The fine church of St Mary has a nave of rich Norman work with a remarkable western doorway; there are Early English additions, and the apsidal chancel is a modern imitation of that style.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /T/TU/TUSSAUD_MARIE.htm (2636 words)

	Science Fair Projects - Madame Tussauds
		Madame Tussauds is a wax museum in London, with branches in Amsterdam, Hong Kong (Victoria Peak), Las Vegas, Copenhagen and New York City.
		Madame Tussaud (1761-1850), born Marie Grosholtz worked as a housekeeper for Dr. Philippe Curtius, a physician skilled in wax modelling.
		In 1802 Marie Tussaud went to London, and as a result of the Franco-English war she was unable to return to France, so with her collection she travelled throughout Great Britain and Ireland.
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Madame_Tussauds (629 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - Madame Tussaud - Wax Sculptress
		Madame Tussaud was born Marie Gosoltz in Strasbourg in 1761.
		Marie became his assistant and soon she was allowed to make the wax masks of many famous people including King Louis XVI and the American statesman Benjamin Franklin.
		Marie Tussaud died in 1850; eight years earlier she had completed her greatest work, a remarkable self-portrait that is still on display today.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A734979 (981 words)

	TUSSAUD, MARIE (1760-18... - Online Information article about TUSSAUD, MARIE (1760-18...
		ELIZABETH [1lisabeth Philippine Marie Helene of France] (1764—1794)
		During the terrible days that followed Marie Grosholtz was called upon to model the heads of many of the prominent leaders and victims of the Revolution, and was herself for three months a prisoner, having fallen under the suspicion of the See also:
		In 1794 she married a Frenchman named Tussaud, from whom she was separated in 1800.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /TUM_VAN/TUSSAUD_MARIE_1760_1850_.html (596 words)

	Casebook: Jack the Ripper - Jack ´n Wax
		Madame Tussaud was born Marie Grosholtz, in Strasbourg.
		Marie could not have guessed that the railways were about to provide her with a constant supply of patronage.
		Marie continued to make wax portraits until she was 81 and sit at her table collecting the entrance fee almost to the year of her death in 1850.
	www.casebook.org /dissertations/aliffe-wax.html (4620 words)

	Madame Tussaud's - Origins & History
		It was not long before Marie's talent became apparent and she was invited to the royal court to assist in the artistic education of King Louis XVI's sister, Madame Elizabeth.
		The capital became a centre of chaotic activity: no one was safe, and at one time both Marie and her mother were imprisoned, sharing a cell with Josephine de Beauharnais, who later became the Empress Josephine, wife of Napoleon Bonaparte.
		Before long, Marie was asked to prepare the death masks of many of her former employers after they had been executed by the guillotine - among them Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI.
	dimkin.df.ru /mt/oh_1.html (429 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - Madame Tussaud's
		Marie made the death masks of Louis XVI and the queen of France, and many other accused criminals who were executed by the guillotine in the French revolution.
		Marie Tussaud died in 1850; eight years earlier she had completed her greatest work, a remarkable self-portrait that still can be seen on display today.
		Madame Tussaud, was a remarkable character in so many ways, she was a successful business woman in the 19th century which there were not that many of.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A728138 (871 words)

	Madame Tussauds London > About Us > History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Marie Grosholz, later known as Madame Tussaud, is born in Strasbourg.
		Marie becomes art tutor to King Louis XVI's sister and goes to live at the royal court in Versailles.
		For the next 33 years, she lives the exhausting and precarious life of a travelling showman, moving from town to town with her caravans, organising advertising, and encouraging newspaper anecdotes, or organising charity benefits to bring in useful patrons.
	www.madame-tussauds.co.uk /aboutus_history_fullhistory.asp (454 words)

	Madame Tussauds Amsterdam > Over ons > Onze geschiedenis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Marie's mother's employer, a doctor called Philippe Curtius, opens an exhibition of life-size wax figures at the Palais Royale in Paris.
		Marie returns to Paris, later helping Curtius to mould the heads of some of the guillotine's victims – among them her Versailles acquaintances.
		She marries François Tussaud, an engineer, but leaves him eight years later to bring the collection on a tour of the British Isles.
	www.madametussauds.nl /dutch/aboutus_history_fullhistory.asp (468 words)

	Marie Tussaud Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Marie Tussaud (birthname Marie Grosholtz) was born in 1760 in Strasbourg, France.
		Tussaud learnt the art of wax modelling from her uncle, "Philippe Curtius".
		In 1835, Tussaud opened her wax museum (now known as Madame Tussauds) in London.
	www.paralumun.com /bustussaud.htm (65 words)

	The Mikado, "Madame Tussaud's Waxwork" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Marie Tussaud, originally a Swiss citizen, made wax casts of some heads decapitated by guillotine in the French Revolution (Ayre 417).
		Madame Tussaud collected these curiosities together in a museum in Paris, and in 1802 she moved to England with her sons and her wax models.
		For example, Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI are in the Chamber of Horrors that we can visit, just as they did in Gilbert and Sullivan's day, and her own self-portrait stands in the entry (Madame Tussaud).
	condor.stcloudstate.edu /~scogdill/mikado/tussaud.html (375 words)

	New Musicals - Tussaud Synopsis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		To the modern world, Madame Tussaud is a sideshow attraction, a Piccadilly novelty, a bizarre woman who gained notoriety for the Death Masks she took from the severed heads of famous people guillotined during the French Revolution, and which formed the cornerstone of the Exhibition she single-handedly toured all over Europe, finally settling in London.
		"TUSSAUD!", the Musical, attempts to strip away the carnival atmosphere, and put a human face on the woman who was at the very center of one of the most turbulent and bloody periods of French history.
		Brought to life by the Barker, the waxen figures and heads from her original exhibition tell the story of Marie Grosholtz, who later came to be known as Madame Tussaud.
	www.newmusicals.com /Tussaud/synopsis_tussaud.html (261 words)

	Tussaud, Marie on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		TUSSAUD, MARIE [Tussaud, Marie], 1760-1850, Anglo-French modeler in wax, b.
		Tussaud was imprisoned during the Reign of Terror, and many heads of famous persons were brought to her for modeling.
		In 1802 she immigrated to England, where in London in 1835 she established a museum that remains a principal tourist attraction, now known as Madame Tussauds.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/t/tussaud.asp (293 words)

	Uktravel.com - London Guide
		Madame Tussaud was born Marie Grosholtz in 1761 in Strasbourg.
		Marie served in the court of Louis XVI who along with Marie Antoinette was guillotined in 1793 during the French Revolution.
		On inheriting the wax figure collection of Phillipe Curtius, Madame Tussaud as she then was travelled to Britain with her collection and in 1835 opened her museum in London.
	www.uktravel.com /londontop10.asp?attID=2 (179 words)

	Telegraph \| Arts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Madame Tussaud's is creepy because its figures occupy an eerie limbo: the dead are resurrected and the living mummified.
		Tussaud learnt to cast and model at speed; she learnt to pander to a fickle public; and she learnt the commercial value of celebrity and horror.
		Tussaud was assiduous in removing the whiff of the fairground from her collection.
	www.arts.telegraph.co.uk /arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2003/01/19/bopil19.xml&sSheet=/arts/2003/01/19/bomain.html (911 words)

	Old West Wax Museum
		Curtius and Marie were forced to do as the people asked or forfeit their lives.
		Marie Gresholtz was forced to make wax death masks of her former friends and acquaintances, including King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette.
		In 1802, after an unfortunate marriage, Marie Gresholtz Tussaud sailed to England with her two sons as well as the molds and figures from her work and her uncle's exhibitions.
	server1.westwaxmuseum.com /museum.html (744 words)

	Madame Tussaud's - Origins & History
		The story of Madame Tussaud is as fascinating as that of the exhibition itself.
		First, she spent her early years amid the turmoil of the French Revolution and came to meet many of the characters involved; second, and perhaps more unusually, she succeeded in business at a time when women were rarely involved in the world of commerce.
		Madame Tussaud was born in Strasbourg in 1761 and christened Marie Grosholtz.
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	MADAME TUSSAUD IN EDINBURGH
		Madame Marie Tussaud was born in Strasbourg, France in 1761.
		At the age of nineteen she was appointed art tutor to the sister of King Louis XVI and stayed at the Palace of Versailles until she was twenty-eight years old.
		Madame Tussaud first arrived in Britain in 1802 and, after a short stay in London, she brought her "Grand European Cabinet of Figures" to Edinburgh.
	members.fortunecity.com /gillonj/madametussaud (320 words)

	Article - Madame Tussaud - presented by ©NewsFinder.Org - All Rights Reserved
		On release, Marie's courage was again put to the test when she was forced to take death masks of executed nobles.
		For the next 33 years, Madame Tussaud travelled the length and breadth of the British Isles, exhibiting her growing collection of portraits to admiring and curious crowds.
		With her sons, Madame Tussaud built her exhibition into one of the capital's leading attractions and she remained actively involved in its running almost to the end of her life.
	www.newsfinder.org /more.php?id=634_0_1_0_M (1051 words)

	Welcome to TheRaider.net
		Born in Strasbourg in 1761 and christened Marie Grosholtz Madame Tussaud became famous for her talent on sculpturing wax.
		For the first five years of her life Marie lived in Berne with her widowed mother, who worked as housekeeper for Dr Philippe Curtius — a physician with considerable skill in modelling anatomical subjects in wax.
		Over the years hundreds of celebrities have made their way to Madame Tussaud's 'stage door' to be received in the private studio where the sculptors makes precise measurements and photographs the subject's head from every possible angle.
	www.theraider.net /information/attractions/tussaud.php (505 words)

	Royal Holloway, University of London
		Yet Marie Tussaud was by no means the inventor of wax figures or their only exhibitor.
		Professor Pilbeam sees Madame Tussaud herself and her exhibition as part of the wider history of wax modelling and of popular entertainment.
		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 (but also providing the perennial fascination of the Chamber of Horrors).
	www.rhul.ac.uk /for-staff/on-campus/media/apr03.html (853 words)

	Madame Tussauds - London. Bookings and information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Madame Tussaud's is the most famous waxwork museum in the world with its renowned 'chamber of horrors'.
		Madame Tussaud (Marie Grosholtz) is born in Strasburg
		Marie is imprisoned, sharing a cell with the future Empress Josephine.
	www.expressevents.com /tussauds/april.asp (1073 words)

	ipedia.com: Madame Tussauds Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Madame Tussauds is a wax museum in London, England, with branches in Amsterdam, Hong Kong, Las Vegas and New York.
		Madame Tussauds is a wax museum in London, England, with branches in Amsterdam, Hong Kong (Victoria Peak), Las Vegas and New York.
		Madame Tussaud (December 1, 1761 - April 16, 1850) was born Marie Grosholtz (sometimes spelled Grossholtz or Grossholz) in Strasbourg.
	www.ipedia.com /madame_tussauds.html (791 words)

	Bringing the wax to life - The Washington Times: Non-Fiction Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In "Madame Tussaud and the Waxworks," Pamela Pilbeam notes that the 19th-century entrepreneur made other questionable claims in a memoir she wrote at the end of her life.
		Later, after marrying Francois Tussaud, Madame Tussaud took advantage of the peace between England and France and crossed to England in 1802, never to return to her husband.
		And the early Madame Tussaud's thrived in spite of competition from panoramas and dioramas and other sources of popular entertainment that were springing up everywhere.
	www.washtimes.com /books/20030721-035142-4408r.htm (1091 words)

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