Discover the amazing story of how a young woman from France befriended the royal family, escaped the guillotine, made death masks of revolutionaries, and then created the world's most successful waxworks museum.

The story of Madame Tussauds has a lot more to it than meets the eye.

In today's episode we cover:

What is wax-working?
Going to Paris to seek fortune
Teaching art to King Louis XVI’s sister
The arrival of the revolution
Death masks
The trip to London
The UK tour
Why Brits loved it
Madame Tussauds in modern times

Full transcript and key vocabulary available on the website www.leonardoenglish.com/podcasts/madame-tussauds

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#66: The Weird History of Madame Tussauds