Марі Тюссо та посмертні маски Французької революції
Marie Tussaud is known for her wax figures and the story of death masks made during the French Revolution. According to Madame Tussauds’ own history, after her release from prison she had to prove her loyalty to the Revolution by making masks of executed nobles and former patrons, including Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette.
However, details of her role are unevenly documented and rely substantially on her later memoirs and the museum tradition. Louvre-Lens independently confirms that Tussaud and the painter Jacques-Louis David were summoned to the home of the recently murdered Jean-Paul Marat on July 13, 1793. The cautious wording is that Tussaud is associated with death masks of prominent revolutionary figures; individual attributions are not all equally well documented.