Madame Tussaud

When Marie moves from her family's waxwork museum into the palace
of Versailles, her whole life is set to change...When Marie Tussaud
learns the exciting news the royal family will be visiting her
famed wax museum, the Salon de Cire, she never dreams that the
king's sister will request her presence at Versailles: as a royal
tutor in wax sculpting. As Marie familiarizes herself with Princess
Elisabeth and begins to know Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI, she
witnesses the glamorous life of court, a very different world from
her home on the Boulevard du Temple of Paris where bread can only
be had on the black market and men sell their teeth to put food on
the their tables. The year is 1788 and men like Desmoulins, Marat,
and Robespierre are meeting in the salons of Paris speaking against
the monarchy; there's whispered talk of revolution. Spanning five
years from budding revolution to the Reign of Terror, Madame
Tussaud brings us into the world of an incredible heroine whose
talent for wax moulding saved her life and preserved the faces of a
vanished kingdom.