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Author : Marie Tussaud
Publisher : London : Saunders and Otley
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1838
Category : France
ISBN : MSU:31293006300754
Author : Marie Tussaud
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 507 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : France
ISBN : 1107360358
Author : Marie Tussaud
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1839
Category : France
ISBN : HARVARD:HWRFCB
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1838
Category : Books
ISBN : HARVARD:32044089268296
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : France
ISBN : OCLC:939627755
In her memoirs of 1838, Madame Marie Tussaud recounts how she was forced to take wax impressions of the severed heads of her royal friends Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. Then, with her head shaved, she awaited her own execution. Fortunate to survive, she travelled to England with her collection of macabre wax casts which resulted in the famous waxworks museum.
Author : Marie Tussaud
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1839
Category : France
ISBN : LCCN:15023692
Author : Marie Tussaud
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1230434593
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1839 edition. Excerpt: ... federation and civic oath, --mutually agreed to by the assembled thousands'? The scenes of cruelty, carnage, and assassination which followed, never entered into the perspective which the citizens traced in their minds, as they laboured for that work which they flattered themselves would be the consolidation of their political happiness. At sunset the signal for departure was given, and the Parisians, forming themselves into different companies, according to the sections to which they belonged, returned to their respective homes, each imagining that he had that day been performing the part of a patriot, and that he had been discharging a duty that was incumbent upon him. All retired satisfied with themselves, I 122 GRAND PROCESSION. and pleased with their neighbours and fellow-labourers. Happy illusion! Pity that it could not have longer endured. But if the preparatory operations presented a gay and animated scene, what words can describe the wonderful and beautiful-spectacle which the day itself displayed? Madame Tussaud observes, that it is impossible for the imagination to form to itself any adequate idea of the enthusiastic development of joy which seemed to pervade all Paris. Amongst other objects which composed the immense procession, were three triumphal cars, the first containing the goddess of Liberty, personated by a lady of respectability, and not, .as often erroneously stated, a prostitute; the female selected was one whose figure ( was commanding, and who possessed a fine countenance, and dignified appearance; the car was ornamented with symbolic devices. The next which followed contained the figure of Voltaire, and afterwards followed that of Rosseau, the federate authorities of the provinces, with those of the army, each.
Author : Kate Berridge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Amusement parks
ISBN : UCSC:32106018350030
Madame Tussaud is a name known all over the world. The queue to her exhibition is a landmark. Such is its phenomenal success, it has eclipsed the woman who started it all. But Marie Tussaud led a remarkable life. With grit and audacity she overcame reversals of fortune and built an extraordinary spectacle. Of lowly birth and uncertain paternity, Marie became apprentice to a charismatic showman in Paris who taught her the art of wax modelling. They plied their trade among a colourful cast of 'Italian singers, pastry cooks, restaurant keepers, marionettes, acrobats, giants, dwarves, ferocious beasts'. In her memoir she also claimed friendship with royals and revolutionaries including Marie Antoinette and Voltaire. But, as a born entrepreneur, did Marie's flair for publicity extend to moulding her own story? After the Revolution, she came to England and took her show on the road. She pursued the punishing lifestyle of the travelling show for many years and secured a lasting reputation in the Dickensian world of 19th century popular entertainment. More than a biography, this captivating cultural history plunges the reader into popular culture of the past; the escapist delights of canine cabaret, living skeletons, phantasmagoria and of course waxworks. It reveals a truth that Madame Tussaud understood and harnessed from the outset - the mass-market appeal of glamour and gore is enduring and universal.
Author : Kate Berridge
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2009-05-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780061945120
Kate Berridge’s Madame Tussaud: A Life in Wax “celebrates a great pioneer of mass-market illusion, whose illusions eventually included herself.”* Millions have visited the museums that bear her name, yet few know much about Madame Tussaud. A celebrated artist, she had both a ringside seat at and a cameo role in the French Revolution. A victim and survivor of one of the most tumultuous times in history, this intelligent, pragmatic businesswoman has also had an indelible impact on contemporary culture, planting the seed of our obsession with celebrity. Kate Berridge tells this fascinating woman’s complete story for the first time, drawing upon a wealth of sources, including Tussaud’s memoirs and historical archives. It is a grand-scale success story, revealing how with sheer graft and grit a woman born in 1761 to an eighteen-year-old cook overcame extraordinary reversals of fortune to build the first and most enduring worldwide brand identified simply by reference to its founder’s name: Madame Tussaud’s. “A good story, like Berridge’s biography, is a blessing.” —Miami Herald “A rousing good read . . . [Berridge] presents us with a thorough understanding of the beginnings of popular culture.” —Vancouver Sun “Fascinating. . . . A vividly recreated history of an extreme time and the unusually determined woman who capitalized so effectively on it.” —Globe and Mail “Spectacular and spellbinding. . . . Thoughtful, original, never condescending, erudite, and packed with vivid and sometimes horrifying detail, it is a model of how cultural history should be written.” —*Sunday Times (London)
Author : Pamela Pilbeam
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2006-08-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1852855118
Tussaud's catered for the public's fascination with monarchy, whether Henry VIII and his wives or Queen Victoria, as well as for their love of history, acting as an accessible and enjoyable museum. This work looks at Madame Tussaud herself and her exhibition as part of the wider history of wax modelling and of popular entertainment.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 662 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1838
Category : Books
ISBN : MINN:31951002806542B
Author : Billie Melman
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2006-06-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191538025
In this original and widely researched book, Billie Melman explores the culture of history during the age of modernity. Her book is about the production of English pasts, the multiplicity of their representations and the myriad ways in which the English looked at history (sometimes in the most literal sense of 'looking') and made use of it in a social and material urban world, and in their imagination. Covering the period between the Napoleonic Wars and the Coronation of 1953, Melman recoups the work of antiquarians, historians, novelists and publishers, wax modellers, cartoonists and illustrators, painters, playwrights and actors, reformers and educationalists, film stars and their fans, musicians and composers, opera-fans, and radio listeners. Avoiding a separation between 'high' and 'low' culture, Melman analyses nineteenth-century plebeian culture and twentieth-century mass-culture and their venues - like Madame Tussaud's Chamber of Horrors, panoramas, national monuments like the Tower of London, and films - as well as studying forms of 'minority' art - notably opera. She demonstrates how history was produced and how it circulated from texts, visual images, and sounds, to people and places and back to a variety of texts and images. While paying attention to individuals' making-do with culture, Melman considers constrictions of class, gender, the state, and the market-place on the consumption of history. Focusing on two privileged pasts, the Tudor monarchy and the French Revolution, the latter seen as an English event and as the framework for narrating and comprehending history, Melman shows that during the nineteenth century, the most popular, longest-enduring, and most highly commercialized images of the past represented it not as cosy and secure, but rather as dangerous, disorderly, and violent. The past was also imagined as an urban place, rather than as rural. In Melman's account, City not green Country, is the centre of a popular version of the past whose central Images are the dungeon, the gallows, and the guillotine.
Author : Marie Tussaud
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 1018666729
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 654 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1838
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555022429
Author : Ralph Griffiths,George Edward Griffiths
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1838
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CHI:79232469