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Marie Tussaud was born Anna Marie Grosholtz in 1761 in Strasbourg, France.

Marie Tussaud is an extraordinary character. The story of Madame Tussaud back more than 200 years, during which the museum is part of the experience of countless millions of visitors to London. Madame Tussaud has yet not always found in the British capital, and the history of its development is just as fascinating as the museum itself.

Fatherless, she was raised by Dr. Curtius, a physician and wax carver, who uses his mother as a maid in Bern, Switzerland. Dr. Curtius moved to Paris four years later to get a firm wax portraits and brought Mary and her mother.

Over the years, it will introduce the girl to his art of modeling.

Dr. Curtius gradually acquired a reputation. He first exhibited at the Palais Royal, and the Cave of the great thieves. Tussaud created her first wax figure, of Voltaire, in 1777.

She modelled at that time include Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Benjamin Franklin.

His talent makes it known to the court. She painted a portrait of Madame du Barry. Soon it will Robespierre, Marat, and Napoleon who immortalized his fingers.

During the French Revolution she modelled many prominent victims. In her memoirs search through corpses to find the decapitated heads of executed citizens, from which she would make death masks. Her death masks were held up as revolutionary flags and paraded through the streets of Paris.

Her marriage to François Tussaud in 1795 lent a new name to the show: Madame Tussaud's.

France still suffered hardships and business is not going well for Mary.

In 1802, she decided to leave Paris with his eldest son, Joseph, to the British Isles, and it left her husband and youngest son, Francis, to present his museum. She was never to see France, nor her husband.

In 1826, Mary's mother died, Francis then joined his mother and elder brother.

In 1835, after 33 years on the road, Madame Tussaud found a permanent home for the museum: the "Portman Rooms", in Baker Street, London, called the "Baker Street Bazaar".

Madame Tussaud died in 1850, aged eighty-nine, having worked in the museum until almost the last minute, extraordinary for a woman of that time.

His latest work, a remarkable self-portrait is on display in the Great Hall. His son inherited the museum and it was in 1894 that his little son carried the museum until Marylebone Road where it remains.

The building was burned in 1825 and bombed in 1940, despite these accidents brushing the disaster, most of the original and molds used to create the statues collection remained intact. Today, more than 2 million visitors from around the world visit Madame Tussaud each year.

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