Jun 30, 2025 · A wax figure of Marie Antoinette still stands in Paris today, at the Musée Grévin. Tucked behind gilded doors on Boulevard Montmartre, the museum continues the tradition …

In her 1838 biography, Madam Tussaud told the tale of how she came to make Maria Antoinette’s death mask. Tussaud had watched the former Queen’s procession to the scaffold although …

Apr 14, 2022 · There is actually a death mask of Marie taken soon after her execution. It was taken by a wax worker whose name you probably recognize: Marie Tussaud. Tussaud got her …

Oct 18, 2025 · Over the course of the Reign of Terror, Grosholtz ended up making death masks of revolutionaries and royalists, including Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, her student Madame …

Join us as we tell her story and reveal facial reconstructions with influences from portraits as well as the death mask of the ill-fated Last Queen of France.

Apr 14, 2022 · Marie Antoinette’s remains were taken to a graveyard behind the Church of Madeleine about half a mile north, but the gravediggers were taking a lunch break. That gave …

Here Curtius displayed wax figures of notorious French criminals who had been executed, as well as members of the French royal family and aristocracy who had been guillotined during the …