Madame Tussauds London
Wax museum housing lifelike celebrity and historical figures, born from the death masks of the French Revolution.
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Madame Tussauds traces back to Marie Grosholtz, a wax modeler in the royal court at Versailles who was swept into a Revolutionary prison cell under threat of the guillotine. The guide follows the unusual skill that spared her, the death masks she made of figures including Marie Antoinette, Louis XVI, and Robespierre, and the journey that eventually brought her wax work to London in 1802. Look for the original Chamber of Horrors displays as you make your way through today's gallery.
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