It’s well-written, engaging, and hard to put down. I have tried and I can’t think of one complaint. As time goes by, Marie does get close to members of the royal family, even as more famous Revolutionaries, such as Lafayette, meet and talk under her roof. Even as she’s trying to work out this deal, Robespierre, the Duc d’Orleans, and Marat are meeting in her house and discussing the problems with the French monarchy. As the book opens, she is maneuvering to have the royal family visit the Salon, as it was then called, and thus bring more visitors in their wake. She and her family owned, designed and operated the wax museum that has become synonymous with her name.
A foreign-born commoner, she was neither part of the nobility nor of the starving peasants.
Marie Tussaud, or Grosholtz as she is named throughout most of the book, was in an ideal position to narrate a history of the French Revolution.
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