About the Project
Madame Tussauds is a household name, even to this day. With 26 locations around the world, it’s a struggle to find a large city without one of her waxworks. They are monuments to fame so modern you’d almost have expected a board of soulless executives to have come up with the idea.
But this could not be further from the truth. Marie, the lady behind the Madame, grew up fatherless during the 1700s. Learning her craft from the owner of a famous Cabinet of Curiosities, she ended up so gifted she was chosen as the art tutor within the Palace of Versailles, tutoring the sister of Louis the XVI.
Watch first hand as this magnificent woman used her cunning brilliance to survive not only the French Revolution as a royalist, but pioneer a new art form within England, succeeding as a single mother during a time where anti-French propaganda was commonplace.
Production Team
