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Author : John Theodore Tussaud
Publisher : New York : George H. Doran [1920]
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Romance of Madame Tussaud's written by John Theodore Tussaud and published by New York : George H. Doran [1920]. This book was released on 1920 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Tussaud
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781539397687
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (976 download)
Download or read book The Romance of Madame Tussaud written by John Tussaud and published by . This book was released on 2016-10-16 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mad "Her biography may be said to comprise a tale of two cities" The waxwork museum to which Madame Tussaud gave her name remains a popular London attraction. However, the life that brought Marie Tussaud to London was one of terror, revolution and execution. Learning her trade from a physician who excelled at wax modelling, Marie began her career innocently creating waxes of contemporary celebrities, such as Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Benjamin Franklin. In the 1780's she was employed to teach the sister of Louis XVI votive making. The French Revolution would shatter this life. Arrested as a Royalist sympathiser, Marie was sentenced to die. Her head was shaved in preparation for the guillotine. It was only her connection to the physician who trained her that saved Marie that day. Her skill with wax was utilised and Marie found herself making wax models of the executed, including the King, Marie Antoinette and later, Robespierre... The Romance of Madame Tussaud is an amazing history of an extraordinary time. Written by her great grandson, The Romance of Madame Tussaud is a captivating and insightful look into the life of Marie Tussaud herself and her fascinating museum. John Theodore Tussaud (1858 - 1943) was the great grandson of Marie Tussaud. Although his father had sold ownership of Madame Tussauds, John worked in the museum as manager and chief artist for many years. In 1935 John was elected as a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. In addition to The Romance of Madame Tussaud, John wrote The Chosen Four about Napoleon's loyal supporters who followed him into exile at St. Helena.
Author : John Theodore Tussaud
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (18 download)
Download or read book The Romance of Madame Tussaud's written by John Theodore Tussaud and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : JOHN THEODORE. TUSSAUD
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781033738184
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (381 download)
Download or read book ROMANCE OF MADAME TUSSAUD'S written by JOHN THEODORE. TUSSAUD and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Theodore Tussaud
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780331927535
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (275 download)
Download or read book The Romance of Madame Tussaud's (Classic Reprint) written by John Theodore Tussaud and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-25 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Romance of Madame Tussaud's I made some researches in accordance with your request, and, while investigating the old parochial registers of Macon anterior to the Revolution, I found not only the baptismal registration of Francois Tussaud, husband of the foundress of the Exhibition, but also sufficient documents to enable me to establish his ancestry through four generations. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : John Theodore 1859 Tussaud
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781372852763
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (527 download)
Download or read book ROMANCE OF MADAME TUSSAUDS written by John Theodore 1859 Tussaud and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-28 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Theodore Tussaud
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Romance of Madame Tussaud's written by John Theodore Tussaud and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Pamela Pilbeam
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9781852855116
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (551 download)
Download or read book Madame Tussaud written by Pamela Pilbeam and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2006-08-10 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. This work looks at Madame Tussaud herself and her exhibition as part of the wider history of wax modelling and of popular entertainment.
Author : Kate Berridge
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061945129
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (619 download)
Download or read book Madame Tussaud written by Kate Berridge and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-05-21 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kate Berridge’s Madame Tussaud: A Life in Wax “celebrates a great pioneer of mass-market illusion, whose illusions eventually included herself.”* Millions have visited the museums that bear her name, yet few know much about Madame Tussaud. A celebrated artist, she had both a ringside seat at and a cameo role in the French Revolution. A victim and survivor of one of the most tumultuous times in history, this intelligent, pragmatic businesswoman has also had an indelible impact on contemporary culture, planting the seed of our obsession with celebrity. Kate Berridge tells this fascinating woman’s complete story for the first time, drawing upon a wealth of sources, including Tussaud’s memoirs and historical archives. It is a grand-scale success story, revealing how with sheer graft and grit a woman born in 1761 to an eighteen-year-old cook overcame extraordinary reversals of fortune to build the first and most enduring worldwide brand identified simply by reference to its founder’s name: Madame Tussaud’s. “A good story, like Berridge’s biography, is a blessing.” —Miami Herald “A rousing good read . . . [Berridge] presents us with a thorough understanding of the beginnings of popular culture.” —Vancouver Sun “Fascinating. . . . A vividly recreated history of an extreme time and the unusually determined woman who capitalized so effectively on it.” —Globe and Mail “Spectacular and spellbinding. . . . Thoughtful, original, never condescending, erudite, and packed with vivid and sometimes horrifying detail, it is a model of how cultural history should be written.” —*Sunday Times (London)
Author : Kathleen Benner Duble
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1440581177
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (45 download)
Download or read book Madame Tussaud's Apprentice written by Kathleen Benner Duble and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-07-04 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1789, with the starving French people on the brink of revolution, orphaned Celie Rosseau, an amazing artist and a very clever thief, runs wild with her protector, Algernon, trying to join the idealistic freedom fighters of Paris. But when she is caught stealing from none other than the king's brother and the lady from the waxworks, Celie must use her drawing talent to buy her own freedom or die for her crimes. Forced to work for Madame Tussaud inside the opulent walls that surround Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, Celie is shocked to find that the very people she imagined to be monsters actually treat her with kindness. But the thunder of revolution still rolls outside the gates, and Celie is torn between the cause of the poor and the safety of the rich. When the moment of truth arrives, will she turn on Madame Tussaud or betray the boy she loves? From the hidden garrets of the starving poor to the jeweled halls of Versailles, Madame Tussaud's Apprentice is a sweeping story of danger, intrigue, and young love, set against one of the most dramatic moments in history.
Author : André-Paul Duchâteau
Publisher : Cinebook
ISBN 13 : 1849189757
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (491 download)
Download or read book The Fascinating Madame Tussaud written by André-Paul Duchâteau and published by Cinebook. This book was released on 2013-01-22T00:00:00+01:00 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paris, 1793. Marie Crossholz manages the wax museum set up by her father. In exchange for bribes, some executioners allow her to mould the faces of guillotined aristocrats... After the French Revolution, Marie Crossholz becomes Mrs Tussaud. Disappointed by the marriage, she leaves for London with the ambition to create a wax museum there. New fights and other tumultuous adventures await her... Thirty years later, in 1835, she inaugurates the famous Tussaud Museum of Baker Street in London, which today continues to grow with new celebrities and attracts millions of visitors!
Author : Luke Reynolds
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019268843X
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (926 download)
Download or read book Who Owned Waterloo? written by Luke Reynolds and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-06 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1815 and the Duke of Wellington's death in 1852, the Battle of Waterloo became much more than simply a military victory. While other countries marked the battle and its anniversary, only Britain actively incorporated the victory into their national identity, guaranteeing that it would become a ubiquitous and multi-layered presence in British culture. By examining various forms of commemoration, celebration, and recreation, Who Owned Waterloo? demonstrates that Waterloo's significance to Britain's national psyche resulted in a different kind of war altogether: one in which civilian and military groups fought over and established their own claims on different aspects of the battle and its remembrance. By weaponizing everything from memoirs, monuments, rituals, and relics to hippodramas, panoramas, and even shades of blue, veterans pushed back against civilian claims of ownership; English, Scottish, and Irish interests staked their claims; and conservatives and radicals duelled over the direction of the country. Even as ownership was contested among certain groups, large portions of the British population purchased souvenirs, flocked to spectacles and exhibitions, visited the battlefield itself, and engaged in a startling variety of forms of performative patriotism, guaranteeing not only the further nationalization of Waterloo, but its permanent place in nineteenth century British popular and consumer culture.
Author : Geri Walton
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1526734095
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)
Download or read book Madame Tussaud written by Geri Walton and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2019-02-28 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “meticulously researched and deftly written biography” of the woman behind the famed wax museums, and their origins in the era of the French Revolution (Midwest Book Review). Madame Marie Tussaud is known worldwide for the chain of wax museums she started over two hundred years ago. Less known is that her original wax models were often of the famous and infamous people she personally knew during and after the French Revolution. These were people like Voltaire, Robespierre, and Napoleon—people who changed the world. Even more, the wax figures were depicted in scenes drawn from the horrors she experienced during the reign of terror in Paris during her early adult years. This book shows how the traumatic and cataclysmic experiences of Madame Tussaud’s early life became part of her legacy. She created a succession of scenes in wax, telling events as she personally experienced them. Her wax sculptures were visceral. She made them herself, at times from the living person’s head and at other times from the recently guillotined head of a former houseguest. As a result, people were drawn to her wax displays because they were the most intense way of experiencing those events themselves. This is the story not only of a unique artist, but of how one of history’s bloodiest events influenced her life and work.
Author : Teresa Ransom
Publisher : Sutton Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Madame Tussaud written by Teresa Ransom and published by Sutton Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of a woman whose work inspired one of London's greatest attractions. Born in Strasbourg, the young Marie Tussaud learned her skills from her mother's employer, Philippe Curtius. In 1780 she became tutor to King Louis XVI's sister and for eight years prior to the Revolution lived at the court in Versailles. In Paris throughout the Revolution, she was often in extreme danger. Incredibly, she was forced to make death masks from the decapitated heads of her friends who fell to the guillotine. In 1802, she opened her first exhibition at the Lyceum theatre in London. With modelled figures such as Napoleon and Josephine and other notables from the Revolution, her exhibition was very popular. She also had the guillotine blade that severed Marie Antoinette's head. For the next 26 years Madame Tussaud toured England and Scotland with her Waxwork Exhibition, until she established her base in Baker Street in 1835. She had always had a "separate room", for the most gruesome of the models, which in 1846 Punch dubbed "The Chamber of Horrors". The name stuck. She died in 1850 and in 1884, Tussaud's grandsons moved the exhibition to Marylebone Road, where it remains.
Author : Kate Berridge
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Waxing Mythical written by Kate Berridge and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Madame Tussaud is a name known all over the world. The queue to her exhibition is a landmark. Such is its phenomenal success, it has eclipsed the woman who started it all. But Marie Tussaud led a remarkable life. With grit and audacity she overcame reversals of fortune and built an extraordinary spectacle. Of lowly birth and uncertain paternity, Marie became apprentice to a charismatic showman in Paris who taught her the art of wax modelling. They plied their trade among a colourful cast of 'Italian singers, pastry cooks, restaurant keepers, marionettes, acrobats, giants, dwarves, ferocious beasts'. In her memoir she also claimed friendship with royals and revolutionaries including Marie Antoinette and Voltaire. But, as a born entrepreneur, did Marie's flair for publicity extend to moulding her own story? After the Revolution, she came to England and took her show on the road. She pursued the punishing lifestyle of the travelling show for many years and secured a lasting reputation in the Dickensian world of 19th century popular entertainment. More than a biography, this captivating cultural history plunges the reader into popular culture of the past; the escapist delights of canine cabaret, living skeletons, phantasmagoria and of course waxworks. It reveals a truth that Madame Tussaud understood and harnessed from the outset - the mass-market appeal of glamour and gore is enduring and universal.
Author : Michelle Moran
Publisher : Quercus Books
ISBN 13 : 9781849161381
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (613 download)
Download or read book Madame Tussaud written by Michelle Moran and published by Quercus Books. This book was released on 2011 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Marie moves from her family's waxwork museum into the palace of Versailles, her whole life is set to change... When Marie Tussaud learns the exciting news the royal family will be visiting her famed wax museum, the Salon de Cire, she never dreams that the king's sister will request her presence at Versailles: as a royal tutor in wax sculpting. As Marie familiarizes herself with Princess Elisabeth and begins to know Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI, she witnesses the glamorous life of court, a very different world from her home on the Boulevard du Temple of Paris where bread can only be had on the black market and men sell their teeth to put food on the their tables. The year is 1788 and men like Desmoulins, Marat, and Robespierre are meeting in the salons of Paris speaking against the monarchy; there's whispered talk of revolution. Spanning five years from budding revolution to the Reign of Terror, Madame Tussaud brings us into the world of an incredible heroine whose talent for wax moulding saved her life and preserved the faces of a vanished kingdom.
Author : Leonard Cottrell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Madame Tussaud written by Leonard Cottrell and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
