Description
Madame Tussaud brings us into the world of an incredible heroine whose talent for wax moulding saved her life and preserved the faces of a vanished kingdom
Paris, 1788. Marie Tussaud is a young woman in love with her oldest friend and neighbour, Henri, and determined to keep her family's waxwork museum in business. When the monarchy is overthrown and the guillotine becomes a fixture in life, Marie is expected to make death masks from the severed heads of the executed aristocrats. Will she survive the revolution? And how will she come to be known as the woman behind one of the most famous museums in the world?