Famous for its waxworks, this was the first Madame Tussauds museum in the world ... craft works of executed nobles – including King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette – to prove she was loyal ...

Born in 1761, Marie Gresholtz, a maker of wax death masks, had modelled the author and philosopher Voltaire in 1777, and became art tutor to King Louis XVI’s sister ... The exhibition continued to ...