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WITNESS TO DEATH
The Extraordinary Life Story of Madame Tussaud Millions have visited the museums that bear her name, yet few know the incredible story of the woman who was to become Madame Tussaud. A celebrated artist with a cameo role in the French Revolution, this intelligent, pragmatic businesswoman has also had an extraordinary impact on contemporary culture, planting the seed of our obsession with celebrity and becoming a female entrepreneur far ahead of her time. In WITNESS TO DEATH we tell this fascinating woman's life story for the first time. It is a grand-scale success story of 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. Central to her success was her status as a victim and survivor of one of the most tumultuous times in history; her grizzly relics both captivated her audience and reinforced her own version of her life story. Her friends ranged from royals to revolutionaries - including Marie Antoinette - and her subjects ranged from Josephine to Charles Dickens. She made life masks of the most famous men and women of the ageÉ and death masks from the guillotine-fresh heads of former friends.

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