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How Madame Tussaud built her house of wax

00:08①Madame Tussauds' early childhood was spent in the Swiss city of Bern, where her mother worked as housekeeper to the anatomist and wax modeler Dr. Philippe Curtius. 

00:23②When revolution broke out in 1789, Marie and her mentor, both accused of having monarchist sympathies, found themselves in danger. 

00:36③Revolutionary leaders and those sent to the guillotine became the new stars of Curtius' gallery. 

00:45④Philippe Curtius died in September 1794 and left Marie the sole heir of his waxwork museums. 

00:56⑤Loading her precious waxworks into rail carriages, Madame Tussaud set off on a touring exhibition around the British Isles that would last, on and off, for a period of nearly 30 years. 

01:12⑥The French Revolution and the Reign of Terror awoke fascination, repugnance, and pity in the British, and Tussaud's creations brought her public face-to-face with the 19th-century equivalent of virtual reality.

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https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/history-magazine/article/madame-tussaud-wax-figures-history