Chapter LI

LAST SCENE OF ALL--MADAME TUSSAUD’S APPEARANCE AND
CHARACTER--HER MEMOIRS PUBLISHED IN 1838--HER LAST WORDS 356

ILLUSTRATIONS

MADAME TUSSAUD _at the age of 85_ _Frontispiece_

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JOHN THEODORE TUSSAUD 32

CHRISTOPHER CURTIUS 56

LOUIS XVI AND THE DUKE OF ORLÉANS 56

THREE VIEWS OF VOLTAIRE’S HEAD 57

“THE DYING SOCRATES” 57

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN 57

MADAME TUSSAUD _at the age of 20_ 72

MARIE ANTOINETTE, THE DAUPHIN, AND THE DUCHESSE D’ANGOULÊME 72

MADAME ELIZABETH OF FRANCE 73

MADAME ELIZABETH OF FRANCE, SISTER OF LOUIS XVI 73

MODEL OF THE BASTILLE 73

M. NECKER 73

CAMILLE DESMOULINS 88

THOMAS CARLYLE 88

MARIE ANTOINETTE 88

JEAN BAPTISTE CARRIER 88

KNIFE, LUNETTE AND CHOPPER OF THE ORIGINAL GUILLOTINE 88

THE GUILLOTINE 89

CHARLOTTE CORDAY 89

JEAN PAUL MARAT 89

MAXIMILIEN MARIE ISIDORE ROBESPIERRE 89

THE PRINCESS DE LAMBALLE 89

DANTON 89

MADAME TUSSAUD _at the age of 42_ 112

HER ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCESS CHARLOTTE OF WALES AND SAXE-COBURG 112

THE BRISTOL RIOTS 112

SIR CHARLES WETHERELL 112

HER MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY QUEEN ADELAIDE 113

INTERIOR OF THE EXHIBITION 113

DANIEL O’CONNELL 113

MADAME DE MALIBRAN 113

JOSEPH TUSSAUD 113

THORWALDSEN’S CELEBRATED BUST OF THE GREAT NAPOLEON 128

NAPOLEON’S MILITARY CARRIAGE _General View_ 128

NAPOLEON’S MILITARY CARRIAGE _Scene of its capture at Jenappe_ 128

THE EMPRESS JOSEPHINE 128

NAPOLEON’S MILITARY CARRIAGE _The Interior_ 129

ARTICLES FOUND IN NAPOLEON’S CARRIAGE 129

NAPOLEON’S BAROUCHE 129

FATHER MATHEW 144

NICHOLAS I 144

VOLTAIRE’S CHAIR 145

SIR EDWIN LANDSEER, R.A. 145

WELLINGTON VISITING THE EFFIGY OF NAPOLEON 160

SIR GEORGE HAYTER 160

COLOUR-SERGEANT GILBERT H. BATES 161

WILLIAM COBBETT 161

RICHARD COBDEN 161

JOHN BRIGHT 178

TICHBORNE CLAIMANT 178

DR. LIVINGSTONE 179

THE PRINCE IMPERIAL 179

NAPOLEON III 179

COUNT LÉON 192

EDWARD TRACY TURNERELLI 192

THE TURNERELLI WREATH 192

KING CETEWAYO 193

GENERAL BOULANGER 193

LORD FREDERICK CAVENDISH 208

CHARLES BRADLAUGH 208

SIR RICHARD BURTON 209

HEAD OF LORD TENNYSON 209

VISCOUNT HINTON AND HIS ORGAN 240

THE SURRENDER OF GENERAL CRONJE 240

WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY 241

SIR SQUIRE BANCROFT 241

BUST OF GEORGE AUGUSTUS SALA 288

GEORGE AUGUSTUS SALA 288

T. W. BURGESS _The Channel Swimmer_ 288

EFFIGY OF DR. SUN YAT SEN 289

DR. SUN YAT SEN 289

THE CHILDREN’S LORD MAYOR 289

CHARLES PEACE 320

MARQUIS OF HARTINGTON 320

BURKE AND HARE 320

SIR THOMAS LAWRENCE 320

KEY OF THE BASTILLE 320

JOHN WILLIAMS 320

WILLIAM MARWOOD _The Hangman_ 321

DR. JACKSON _Bishop of London_ 321

COUNT ZEPPELIN 321

BISMARCK 321

JACK SHEPPARD 321

THE OLD NEWGATE BELL 321

EDITH CAVELL 352

JACK CORNWELL, V. C. 352

CAPTAIN FRYATT 352

FIELD-MARSHAL EARL KITCHENER 352

ALFRED AUSTIN 353

TOM HOOD 353

FRANCIS TUSSAUD 353

INTRODUCTION

BY HILAIRE BELLOC