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Discover the amazing story of how a young woman from France befriended the royal family, escaped the guillotine, made death masks of revolutionaries, and then created the world's most successful waxworks museum.
The story of Madame Tussauds has a lot more to it than meets the eye.
In today's episode we cover:
- What is wax-working?
- Going to Paris to seek fortune
- Teaching art to King Louis XVI’s sister
- The arrival of the revolution
- Death masks
- The trip to London
- The UK tour
- Why Brits loved it
- Madame Tussauds in modern times
Full transcript and key vocabulary available on the website www.leonardoenglish.com/podcasts/madame-tussauds
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