MADAME TUSSAUDS

VRABIE CRINA ALEXIA 6TH GRADE-B

• Marie Tussaud was born as Marie Grosholtz in 1761 in Strasbourg, France. Her mother
worked for Philippe Curtius in Bern, Switzerland, who was a physician skilled in wax
modeling. Curtius taught Tussaud the art of wax modelling beginning when she was a child.
He moved to Paris and took his young apprentice, then only 6 years old, with him.
• Grosholtz created her first wax sculpture in 1777 of Voltaire. At the age of 17, she became
the art tutor to Madame Elizabeth, the sister of King Louis XVI of France, at the Palace of
Versailles. During the French Revolution, she was imprisoned for three months and awaiting
execution, but was released after the intervention of an influential friend. During the
Revolution, she made models of many prominent victims
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MADAME TUSSAUDS
 GROSHOLTZ INHERITED CURTIUS'S VAST COLLECTION OF WAX MODELS
FOLLOWING HIS DEATH IN 1794. FOR THE NEXT 33 YEARS, SHE TRAVELLED
AROUND EUROPE WITH A TOURING SHOW FROM THE COLLECTION. SHE
MARRIED FRANCOIS TUSSAUD IN 1795 AND TOOK HIS SURNAME. SHE
RENAMED HER SHOW AS MADAME TUSSAUD'S. IN 1802, SHE ACCEPTED AN
INVITATION FROM PAUL PHILIDOR, A LANTERN AND PHANTASMAGORIA
PIONEER, TO EXHIBIT HER WORK ALONGSIDE HIS SHOW AT THE LYCEUM
THEATRE, LONDON. SHE DID NOT FARE PARTICULARLY WELL FINANCIALLY,
WITH PHILIDOR TAKING HALF OF HER PROFITS.

SHE WAS UNABLE TO RETURN TO FRANCE BECAUSE OF THE NAPOLEONIC

WARS, SO SHE TRAVELED THROUGHOUT GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND
EXHIBITING HER COLLECTION. FROM 1831, SHE TOOK A SERIES OF SHORT
LEASES ON THE UPPER FLOOR OF "BAKER STREET BAZAAR" (ON THE WEST
SIDE OF BAKER STREET, DORSET STREET, AND KING STREET IN LONDON).
THIS SITE WAS LATER FEATURED IN THE DRUCE-PORTLAND CASE SEQUENCE
OF TRIALS OF 1898–1907. THIS BECAME TUSSAUD'S FIRST PERMANENT HOME
IN 1836.
MY FAVOURITE WAX FIGURE
Ariana grande is my favourite wax
figure,because i am a fan of here and
celebrity like her are really rare to
met,and its really good made and if you
will go at the museum its like real.I
never see here in my life i only saw her
at the museum and i was shocked