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    Madame Tussauds wax museum in London is one of the most popular tourist attractions, with long lines of people waiting to see and pose next to lifelike wax figures of famous stars, politicians, and royals. It takes sculptors four months and about £150,000 to create each wax figure. Marie Tussaud was born in France in 1761 and learned the art of wax sculpting from Dr. Philippe Curtius. She gained fame creating death masks of French aristocrats executed during the Revolution. In 1802, she moved to England with her wax figure collection, touring the country before opening her first museum in London in 1835.

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    Madame Tussauds wax museum in London is one of the most popular tourist attractions, with long lines of people waiting to see and pose next to lifelike wax figures of famous stars, politicians, and royals. It takes sculptors four months and about £150,000 to create each wax figure. Marie Tussaud was born in France in 1761 and learned the art of wax sculpting from Dr. Philippe Curtius. She gained fame creating death masks of French aristocrats executed during the Revolution. In 1802, she moved to England with her wax figure collection, touring the country before opening her first museum in London in 1835.

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    Madame Tussauds

    A  The museum today


    Madame Tussauds waxworks museum (1)  is one
    of London’s most popular tourist attractions. You often
    (2)  long queues of people waiting to visit their
    favourite lifelike stars, from Star Wars characters and the US
    President, to Prince William and Kate. It is amazing that in
    our technologically advanced world, people still (3) 
    to touch and (4)  next to models made of wax.

    It (5)  four months to make a model and


    (6)  about £150,000. There are Madame Tussauds
    museums all over the world, from Hollywood to Beijing.

    So, where and when was the museum born? And who was
    Madame Tussaud?

    B  Who was Madame Tussaud?


    Marie Tussaud was born in 1761 in Strasburg. Her father,
    a soldier, died before she was born. When Marie was still
    very young, her mother moved to Switzerland, where she
    worked as a housekeeper for a doctor called Philippe
    Curtius. Marie and her mother lived with the doctor. He
    could make brilliant wax models. Marie loved these and
    wanted to learn how to make them. In 1766, Curtius moved
    to Paris. A year later, Marie and her mother joined him.
    Marie showed real talent for wax modelling and during
    the 1780s she worked on them with Curtius. It was the time
    of the French Revolution, and a frightened Marie started
    making death masks for people who were guillotined,
    including King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette.

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    C  The move to England
    Philippe Curtius (1)  died in 1794 and Marie (2)  inherited
    his waxworks. One year later, she (3)  François
    Tussaud and two sons were born, but the marriage was
    not successful. In 1802, Marie (4)  to England with
    the waxworks and her son, Joseph. François (5)  in
    France with the other son.

    Marie couldn’t speak a word of English, but she (6) 


    hard, and she (7)  touring the country with her
    models. She (8)  over 70 towns in 33 years! The
    English were fascinated by the wax masks of dead French
    aristocrats.

    In 1835, she (9)  her first museum in Baker Street,


    London and she worked there until 1842. She (10) 
    in London on 16 April, 1850 – she was 88. In 1884, her
    grandsons moved the museum to the Marylebone Road,
    where it still is today.

    D000918

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