See also:

• MARIE

MARIE See also:

• MARIE TUSSAUD (1760-1850)

TUSSAUD (1760-1850)  , founder of " Madame See also:

• TUSSAUD, MARIE (1760-1850)

Tussaud's See also:

• EXHIBITION

Exhibition " of See also:

• WAX

wax figures in See also:

• LONDON

London, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born in Berne in 1760, the daughter of See also:

• JOSEPH
• JOSEPH, COMTE DE (1785-1870)
• JOSEPH, FATHER (FRANCOIS LECLERC DU TREMBLAY) (1577-1638)

Joseph Grosholtz (d . 1760), an See also:

• ARMY
• ARMY (from Fr. armee, Lat. armata)

army officer . Her See also:

• UNCLE

uncle, a See also:

• DOCTOR (Lat. for " teacher ")

doctor of Berne, See also:

• JOHN
• JOHN (1167–1216)
• JOHN (1290-c. 1320)
• JOHN (1296-1346)
• JOHN (1371–1419)
• JOHN (1468-1532)
• JOHN (1801-1873)
• JOHN (Heb. llni')
• JOHN (ZAPOLYA) (1487-1540)
• JOHN, 4TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (c. 1695-1762)
• JOHN, DON (1545-1578)
• JOHN, DON (1629–1679)
• JOHN, GOSPEL OF ST
• JOHN, or HAYS (1513–1571)
• JOHN, THE APOSTLE
• JOHN, THE EPISTLES OF

John See also:

• CHRISTOPHER, SAINT (Christophorus, Christoferus)

Christopher See also:

• CURTIUS, ERNST (1814-1896)
• CURTIUS, MARCUS

Curtius, had attracted the See also:

• ATTENTION (from Lat. ad-tendo, await, expect; the condition of being " stretched " or " tense ")

attention of the See also:

• PRINCE
• PRINCE (Lat. princeps, from primus capio, " I am the first to take "; Ital. principe, Fr. prince)

prince de See also:

• CONTI, NICOLO
• CONTI, PRINCES OF

Conti by his beautiful anatomical wax See also:

• MODELS

models, and had been induced to move to See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris, abandon his profession, and practise wax modelling as a See also:

• FINE

fine See also:

• ART

art . His See also:

• HOUSE
• HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in Gothic it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

house became the resort of many of the talented men of the See also:

• DAY (O. Eng. dreg, Ger. Tag; according to the New English Dictionary, " in no way related to the Lat. dies")
• DAY, JOHN (1574-1640?)
• DAY, THOMAS (1748-1789)

day, and here he brought his niece at the See also:

• AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age of six, and taught her to See also:

• MODEL (0. Fr. modelle, mod. modele; It. modello, pattern, mould; from Lat. modus, measure, standard)

model in wax . She became such an See also:

• ADEPT (if used as a substantive pronounced adept, if as an adjective adept; from Lat. adeptus, one who has Attained)

adept that she See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early modelled many of the See also:

• GREAT

great See also:

• PEOPLE

people of See also:

• FRANCE
• FRANCE, ANATOLE (1844– )

France, and was finally sent for to stay at the See also:

• PALACE (Lat. Palatium, the name given by Augustus to his residence on the Palatine Hill)

palace at See also:

• VERSAILLES

Versailles to instruct the See also:

• SISTER

sister of See also:

• LOUIS
• LOUIS (804–876)
• LOUIS (893–911)
• LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
• LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian

Louis XVI., Mme See also:

• ELIZABETH
• ELIZABETH (1533-1603)
• ELIZABETH (1596-1662)
• ELIZABETH (1635–1650)
• ELIZABETH [ AMELIE EUGENIE ] (1837—1898)
• ELIZABETH [1lisabeth Philippine Marie Helene of France] (1764—1794)
• ELIZABETH [PAULINE ELIZABETH OTTILIE LOUISE] (1843– )
• ELIZABETH [PETROVNA] (1709-1762), EMPRESS
• ELIZABETH, SAINT (1207-1231)

Elizabeth, in the popular craze . It was from Curtius's exhibition that the See also:

• MOB

mob obtained the busts of See also:

• NECKER, JACQUES (1732—1804)

Necker and the See also:

• DUKE (corresponding to Fr. duc, Ital. duca, Ger. Herzog)

duke of See also:

• ORLEANS
• ORLEANS, CHARLES, DUKE OF (1391-1465)
• ORLEANS, DUKES OF
• ORLEANS, FERDINAND PHILIP LOUIS CHARLES HENRY, DUKE OF (1810-1842)
• ORLEANS, HENRI, PRINCE
• ORLEANS, HENRIETTA, DUCHESS
• ORLEANS, JEAN BAPTISTE GASTON, DUKE
• ORLEANS, LOUIS
• ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE JOSEPH
• ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ROBERT, DUKE
• ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE, DUKE OF (1725–1785)
• ORLEANS, LOUIS, DUKE OF (1372–1407)
• ORLEANS, PHILIP I
• ORLEANS, PHILIP II

Orleans that were carried by the procession when on the 12th of See also:

• JULY

July 1789 the first See also:

• BLOOD

blood of the See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French Revolution was See also:

• SHED

shed . During the terrible days that followed See also:

• MARIE

Marie Grosholtz was called upon to model the heads of many of the prominent leaders and victims of the Revolution, and was herself for three months a prisoner, having fallen under the suspicion of the See also:

• COMMITTEE (from commute, an Anglo-Fr. past participle of commettre, Lat. committere, to entrust; the modern Fr. equivalent comite is derived from the Eng.)

committee of public safety . In 1794 she married a Frenchman named Tussaud, from whom she was separated in 1800 . Her uncle having died in the former See also:

• YEAR

year, after some difficulty she secured per-See also:

• MISSION

mission from See also:

• NAPOLEON

Napoleon to leave France, and she took with her to London the See also:

• NUCLEUS (Lat. for the kernal of a nut, nux, the stone of fruit)

nucleus of her collection from the See also:

• CABINET

cabinet de are in the Palais Royal, and the See also:

• IDEA (Gr. Ibia, connected with i&eiv, to see; cf. Lat. species from specere, to look at)

idea of her " Chamber of Horrors " from Curtius's Caverne See also:

• DES

des Grands Voleurs, in the See also:

• BOULEVARD (a Fr. word, earlier boulevart, from Dutch or Ger. Bollwerk, cf. Eng. " bulwark ")

Boulevard du See also:

• TEMPLE
• TEMPLE, FREDERICK (1821-1902)
• TEMPLE, RICHARD
• TEMPLE, SIR RICHARD, BART
• TEMPLE, SIR WILLIAM, BART

Temple . Her wax figures were successfully shown in the Strand on the site of the See also:

• LYCEUM

Lyceum See also:

• THEATRE (BEarpov, " a place for seeing," from OeacOae)

theatre, and through the provinces, and finally the exhibition was established in permanent London quarters in See also:

• BAKER, HENRY (1698-1774)
• BAKER, SIR BENJAMIN (1840-1907)
• BAKER, SIR RICHARD (1568-1644/5)
• BAKER, SIR SAMUEL WHITE (1821-1893)
• BAKER, THOMAS (1656-1740)
• BAKER, VALENTINE [BAKER PASHA] (1827-1887)

Baker See also:

• STREET
• STREET, GEORGE EDMUND (1824-1881)

Street in 1833 . Here Mme Tussaud died on the 16th of See also:

• APRIL

April 185o . She was succeeded by her son See also:

• FRANCIS
• FRANCIS (FRarrcols) OF SALES, ST (1567-1622)
• FRANCIS (Lat. Franciscus, Ital. Francesco, Span. Francisco, Fr. Francois, Ger. Franz)
• FRANCIS, SIR PHILIP (174o-1818)

Francis Tussaud, he by his son Joseph, and he again by his son John See also:

• THEODORE
• THEODORE (602-690)
• THEODORE (Fedor) GRIGORIEVICH ORLOV, COUNT (1741–1796)
• THEODORE (Rus. Fedor, or Feodor)

Theodore Tussaud (b .

1859) . The exhibition was moved in 1884 to a large See also:

• BUILDING

building in Marylebone Road .