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Main Sources:
Berridge, Kate. Madame Tussaud: A Life in Wax . New York: W. Morrow, 2006.
Panzanelli, Roberta, ed. Ephemeral Bodies: Wax Sculpture and the Human Figure . Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2008.
Pilbeam, Pamela. Madame Tussaud and the History of Waxworks . New York: Hambledon and London, 2003.
Tussaud, John Theodore. The Romance of Madame Tussaud’s . New York: George H. Doran Company, 1920.
Tussaud, Marie. Memoirs of Madame Tussaud: Her Eventful History . London: George Routledge and Sons, 1878.
Schwartz, Vanessa. Spectacular Realities: Early Mass Culture in fin-de-siècle Paris. Berkeley: University of California Berkeley, 1999.
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Images:
John Theodore Tussaud, Madame Tussaud, Age 42 , a wax model, 1921. [Image source: Wikipedia ]
Madame Tussaud, an image based on a drawing by Francois Tussaud [Image credit: Smithsonian ]
Wax bust of Philippe Curtius, Madame Tussaud’s father figure and mentor [Image source: Wikipedia ]
P.D. Viviez, Change-moi cette tête, 1787 [image credit: Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide ]
Revolutionary mob with Curtius’s wax heads of Jacques Necker and the Duc d’Orleans [Image credit: The Telegraph ]
Revolutionary Heads by Madame Tussaud [Image credit: Gavin Baddeley ]
Madame Tussaud’s exhibition at the Baker Street Bazar [image credit: Getty Images ]
Flagship Madame Tussaud’s Museum in London [image credit: Wikipedia ]
Harry Styles undergoing a series of 250 measurements for his wax figure [image credit: Metro ]
Happy listening!
-Lindsay