Marie Tussaud

Madame Tussaud (Appendix №1) was born Marie Gosoltz in Strasbourg in 1761. Her father was killed in the seven-year war, two months before Marie was born. She and her mother lived alone; her mother worked as a housekeeper for Dr Philippe Curtis, a skilled wax sculptor. It was from this `uncle' that Marie learned her art as a child and after he had moved to Pads, where he scored a fashionable success, she and her mother joined him and she became his assistant and soon Marie was allowed to make the wax masks of many famous people.