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Madame Tussaud: A Novel of the French Revolution
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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? In these pages, her tumultuous and amazing story comes to life as only Michelle Moran can tell it. The year is 1788, and a revolution is about to begin. Smart and ambitious, Marie Tussaud has learned the secrets of wax sculpting by working alongside her uncle in their celebrated wax museum, the Salon de Cire. From her popular model of the American ambassador, Thomas Jefferson, to her tableau of the royal family at dinner, Maries museum provides Parisians with the very latest news on fashion, gossip, and even politics. Her customers hail from every walk of life, yet her greatest dream is to attract the attention of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI; their stamp of approval on her work could catapult her and her museum to the fame and riches she desires. After months of anticipation, Marie learns that the royal family is willing to come and see their likenesses. When they finally arrive, the kings sister is so impressed that she requests Maries presence at Versailles as a royal tutor in wax sculpting. It is a request Marie knows she cannot refuseeven if it means time awayfrom her beloved Salon and her increasingly dear friend, Henri Charles. As Marie gets to know her pupil, Princesse ?lisabeth, she also becomes acquainted with the king and queen, who introduce her to the glamorous life at court. From lavish parties with more delicacies than shes ever seen to rooms filled with candles lit only once before being discarded, Marie steps into a world entirely different from her home on the Boulevard du Temple, where people are selling their teeth in order to put food on the table. Meanwhile, many resent the vast separation between rich and poor. In salons and caf?s across Paris, people like Camille Desmoulins, Jean-Paul Marat, and Maximilien Robespierre are lashing out against the monarchy. Soon, theres whispered talk of revolution. . . . Will Marie be able to hold on to both the love of her life and her friendship with the royal family as France approaches civil war? And more important, will she be able to fulfill the demands of powerful revolutionaries who ask that she make the death masks of beheaded aristocrats, some of whom she knows? 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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A LSO BY M ICHELLE M ORAN

Nefertiti

The Heretic Queen

Cleopatras Daughter

This is a work of fiction Names characters places and incidents either are - photo 2

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the authors imagination or are used fictitiously.

Published in the United States by Crown Publishers, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
www.crownpublishing.com

CROWN and the Crown colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Moran, Michelle.
Madame Tussaud : a novel of the French revolution / Michelle Moran.1st ed.
p. cm.
1. Tussaud, Marie, 17611850. 2. Wax modelersFranceFiction.
3. FranceHistoryRevolution, 17891799Fiction. I. Title.
PS3613.O682M33 2011
813.6dc22 2010035785
eISBN: 978-0-307-58867-8

Map by David Cain

Jacket design by Jennifer OConnor
Jacket photography by Richard Jenkins Photography (woman);
Rudy Sulgan/CORBIS (background); Dorling Kindersley (ring)

v3.1

For my editors
Heather Lazare, Matthew Carter, and Allison McCabe
tout seigneur tout honneur

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Contents

T IME L INE for the F RENCH R EVOLUTION

DATE	EVENT
May 5, 1789	The Estates-General meets at Versailles, bringing together all three estates: the clergy, the nobility, and the commoners
June 17, 1789	The Third Estate, made up of commoners, declares itself the National Assembly
July 14, 1789	Fall of the Bastille
August 27, 1789	Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen is adopted
October 56, 1789	Parisian women march on Versailles and force the royal family to move to Paris
October 1, 1791	Meeting of the Legislative Assembly
April 20, 1792	France declares war on Austria
August 10, 1792	After the storming of the Tuileries Palace, the royal family takes refuge with the Legislative Assembly
September 26, 1792	The September Massacres
September 21, 1792	The monarchy is abolished
January 21, 1793	Louis XVI is executed
February 1, 1793	France declares war on Great Britain
April 6, 1793	The Committee of Public Safety is created with the intent of rooting out all traitors and anyone deemed a threat to the Revolution
October 5, 1793	The Revolutionary Calendar is adopted, with Year One beginning on September 22, 1792
October 16, 1793	Queen Marie Antoinette is executed
May 7, 1794	Cult of the Supreme Being proclaimed by Robespierre
June 8, 1794	Robespierre leads the celebration of the Festival of the Supreme Being
June 10, 1794	The Law of 22 Prairial is adopted, encouraging citizens to denounce anyone who might be a counterrevolutionary

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C HARACTERS

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Marie Antoinette: Queen of France

Comte dArtois: Youngest brother of King Louis XVI

Baron de Besenval: Commander of the Swiss Guard; father of Abrielle de Besenval

Henri Charles: Inventor, balloonist, and showman

Jacques Charles: Mathematician, inventor, and balloonist

Philippe Curtius: Wax modeler and showman

Georges Danton: Revolutionary and journalist

Jacques-Louis David: Painter

Camille Desmoulins: Lawyer and revolutionary journalist

Lucile Duplessis: Young revolutionary engaged to Camille Desmoulins

Princesse lisabeth: Sister of King Louis XVI

Anna Grosholtz: Mother of Marie Grosholtz

Edmund Grosholtz: Maries eldest brother and captain in the Swiss Guard

Isabel Grosholtz: Wife of Johann Grosholtz and mother of Paschal

Johann Grosholtz: Maries second-eldest brother and soldier in the Swiss Guard

Marie Grosholtz: Curtiuss niece; wax modeler and show-woman

Wolfgang Grosholtz: Maries youngest brother and soldier in the Swiss Guard

Thomas Jefferson: American ambassador to France

Marquis de Lafayette: French aristocrat and American Revolutionary War hero

lisabeth Vige-Lebrun: Popular female painter employed by the queen

Louis-Charles: The dauphin; first son of King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette

Louis-Joseph: Second son of King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette

Louis the XVI: King of France

Jean-Paul Marat: Swiss lawyer and journalist

Comte de Mirabeau: Revolutionary and journalist

Duc dOrlans: Cousin of King Louis XVI who later changes his name to Philippe galit

Comte de Provence: Eldest brother of King Louis XVI

Maximilien Robespierre: Lawyer from Arras, revolutionary

Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Philosopher and writer

Marquis de Sade: Criminal and writer

Princesse Marie-Thrse: Daughter of King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette

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A UTHORS N OTE

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T HE YEAR IS 1788, AND Q UEEN M ARIE A NTOINETTES POPULARITY is on the decline. Food shortages are widespread throughout her kingdom, caused in large part by the unpredictable weather, which has destroyed most harvests, leaving the French to look to other countries for help. Now, the coldest winter in living memory has settled in, and unless food is found quickly, many thousands will perish.

The quotations at the beginning of most chapters have been excerpted from scandal sheets, newspapers, and speakers contemporary to the time, while each character in this book is based on a person who livedand in many cases diedduring Frances Revolution. All of the major events in this novel took place.

Prologue

L ONDON

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W HEN SHE WALKS THROUGH THE DOOR OF MY EXHIBITION , everything disappears: the sound of the rain against the windows, the wax models, the customers, even the children. This is a face I have not seen in twenty-one years, and immediately I step back, wondering whether I have conjured her from my past.

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