Waxing Lyrical Audiobook

“History is an account not of what actually happened, but of what people think happened.”—Queen Victoria. 

Marie Tussaud was a remarkable woman. She escaped the guillotine and survived the horrors of the French revolution. She toured the towns of Britain for thirty-three hard years with her traveling wax cabinet, fighting off competition against a background of fire, riot, shipwreck, and betrayal. She personified persistence, fortitude, dedication, and self belief. Why does every one know of her exhibition but no one knows her story?

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