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With a Little Help from the Guillotine: How Madame Tussaud Built an Empire with Severed Heads

With a Little Help from the Guillotine: How Madame Tussaud Built an Empire with Severed Heads

by Maledicta | Apr 15, 2018 | Interesting People, Oddities and Curiosities

  Death masks of freshly executed criminals were her specialty! Few people knew the unapologetic sensationalism of Victorian popular culture better than Marie Grosholtz, better known as Madame Tussaud of wax-museum fame. Born to a family line dotted with public...

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