Madame Tussaud : a novel of the French revolution / Wax modellers

Moran, Michelle.

Madame Tussaud : a novel of the French revolution / Michelle Moran. - New York : Broadway Books, 2011. - xii, 480 p. : map ; 20 cm.

Originally published: United States : Crown Pub., 2011.

The world knows Madame Tussaud as a wax artist extraordinaire ... but who was this woman who became one of the most famous sculptresses of all time? Spanning five years, from the budding revolution to the Reign of Terror, "Madame Tussaud" brings us into the world of an incredible heroine whose talent for wax modeling saved her life and preserved the faces of a vanished kingdom.

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Tussaud, Marie, 1761-1850.


Wax modellers--France--Fiction.


France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799--Fiction.


Historical fiction.
Biographical fiction.