Madame Tussauds Orlando

This guide to Madame Tussauds Orlando opens in a Paris prison cell in the summer of 1794, where a young artist named Marie Tussaud, who had once taught art to the French royal family, knelt with her head freshly shaved, waiting for the guillotine as the Revolution turned on her former patrons. It follows the sudden reprieve she was offered, and the unusual task the new government handed her instead. The guide traces how that skill carried her, decades later, from Paris to a permanent exhibition on Baker Street in London.