Madame Tussaud

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Madame Tussaud

Author	: Pamela Pilbeam
File Size	: 45,6 Mb
Publisher	: A&C Black
Language	: English
Release Date	: 10 August 2006
ISBN	: 1852855118
Pages	: 326 pages

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Madame Tussaud by Pamela Pilbeam Book PDF Summary

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.

Madame Tussaud by Pamela Pilbeam

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Madame Tussaud by Michelle Moran

Paris, 1788. Marie is a young woman in love with her oldest friend and neighbour, Henri. But she is also a determined businesswoman, eager to see her family's waxwork museum keep them safe and solvent. Her gift for modelling faces in wax brings her to Versailles, where she must teach the

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Madame Tussaud by Geri Walton

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

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Madame Tussaud s Apprentice by Kathleen Benner Duble

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

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Madame Tussaud by Kate Berridge

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

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Tussaud by Belinda Lyons-Lee

Paris, 1810. Haunted by the French Revolution, Marie Tussaud has locked herself away in her shop with the death masks she was forced to make to avoid the guillotine. Philidor, a famous magician, offers her the chance to accompany him to London to assist in creating a wax automaton that will

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Murder at Madame Tussauds by Jim Eldridge

London, 1896. Madame Tussauds opens to find one of its nightwatchmen decapitated and his colleague nowhere to be found. To the police, the case seems simple: one killed the other and fled, but workers at the museum aren't convinced. Although forbidden contact by his superior officer, Scotland Yard detective John Feather

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Madame Tussaud s Book of Victorian Masks by Lionel Lambourne

REDISCOVER THE PLEASURES OF VICTORIAN PARTY AMUSEMENT BY PRESSING OUT THESE 24 FACSIMILE REPRODUCTIONS OF FULL SIZED MASKS FROM THE ARCHIVES OF MADAME TUSSAUDS AND THE STOCKHOLM LEKSAKSMUSEUM. LIONEL LAMBOURNE, ASSISTANT KEEP OF PAINTINGS AT THE V & A MUSEUM CONTRIBUTES AN INFORMATIVE INTRODUCTION, MAKING THIS A BOOK OF COLOURFUL NOSTALGIA AND

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