Marie Tussaud was a renowned French wax-modeling artist, the founder of London’s famous ‘Madam Tussauds wax museum,’ and one of the most successful career women of the 19th century. After a difficult childhood, she learnt wax-modeling from a physician for whom her mother worked as a housekeeper. The first wax models she made were those of Voltaire and Rousseau. During her early life, she experienced the gruesome horrors of the ‘French Revolution.’ She was imprisoned during the revolution, and after her release, she was made to demonstrate her loyalty to the revolution by making the death masks of the royalties and the King and his Queen. She had to prepare casts from the heads severed at the guillotine. After the revolution, she went to England with her wax figures and traveled around the British Isles for 33 years exhibiting her models. Later, she set up a successful permanent museum at Baker Street, London. For over 250 years ‘Madam Tussauds’ is a renowned attraction in London, and now it has expanded to several branches all over the world.