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#66: The Weird History of Madame Tussauds

#66: The Weird History of Madame Tussauds

English Learning for Curious Minds | A More Interesting Way To Learn English vor 6 Jahren

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

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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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