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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ...between the prisoners--he attended to their rooms, made up their accounts, and strove to keep up some communication between them. The position of the prisoners in separate towers rendered the duty of the warders harder, and they were consumed with anxiety lest any efforts to escape should be made. The smallest thing excited suspicion. A poor priest of Fontenay de Vincennes sent some verses to our Princess, addressed to "Madame Elizabeth, at the Temple"; but the paper was seized and sent to the Council of the Commune as a possibly dangerous document. As we have said, no newspapers were permitted to the prisoners, but horrid pamphlets, which vilified the Royal Family, sometimes found access, and were placed designedly on the chimney-piece or elsewhere to attract their attention. One declared that "the two little wolf-whelps," as they called the royal children, must be suffocated, and another heaped insults on Mme Elizabeth, to try and destroy the admiration felt for her by the public generally. About this time a little difference arose between Cle"ry and Tison as to their mutual duties, and the Council took occasion to arrange how the Royal Family's demands were to be presented in future. One of the officers said to Tison, "Be happy, the Ministry is formed; you have the Department of the Women." This decree in fact presaged the more complete separation of the Royal Family. 1 Vie de Mme Elizabeth, de Beauchesne, vol. ii. p. 50-1 On Friday, 26th October, the Queen, Mme Elizabeth, and the children were installed in the big tower. This moment, which had been so ardently desired, was embittered by an act of cruelty towards Marie Antoinette. The Council of the Temple, in a motion suggested by a personal enemy of...
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A “meticulously researched and deftly written biography” of the woman behind the famed wax museums, and their origins in the era of the French Revolution (Midwest Book Review). Madame Marie Tussaud is known worldwide for the chain of wax museums she started over two hundred years ago. Less known is that her original wax models were often of the famous and infamous people she personally knew during and after the French Revolution. These were people like Voltaire, Robespierre, and Napoleon—people who changed the world. Even more, the wax figures were depicted in scenes drawn from the horrors she experienced during the reign of terror in Paris during her early adult years. This book shows how the traumatic and cataclysmic experiences of Madame Tussaud’s early life became part of her legacy. She created a succession of scenes in wax, telling events as she personally experienced them. Her wax sculptures were visceral. She made them herself, at times from the living person’s head and at other times from the recently guillotined head of a former houseguest. As a result, people were drawn to her wax displays because they were the most intense way of experiencing those events themselves. This is the story not only of a unique artist, but of how one of history’s bloodiest events influenced her life and work.
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