TY  - BOOK
AU  - Carey,Edward
TI  - Little
SN  - 9780525534327
U1  - 823/.914 23
PY  - 2018///
CY  - New York
PB  - Riverhead Books
KW  - Tussaud, Marie,
KW  - Orphans
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Wax modellers
KW  - France
KW  - History
KW  - Revolution, 1789-1799
KW  - Biographical fiction
KW  - gsafd
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - lcgft
N2  - "The wry, macabre, unforgettable tale of an ambitious orphan in Revolutionary Paris, befriended by royalty and radicals, who transforms herself into the legendary Madame Tussaud" --; In 1761 a tiny, odd-looking girl named Marie is born in a village in Switzerland. After the death of her parents, she is apprenticed to an eccentric wax sculptor and whisked off to the seamy streets of Paris, where they meet a domineering widow and her quiet, pale son. Together, they convert an abandoned monkey house into an exhibition hall for wax heads, and the spectacle becomes a sensation. As word of her artistic talent spreads, Marie is called to Versailles, where she tutors a princess and saves Marie Antoinette in childbirth. But outside the palace walls, Paris is roiling. The revolutionary mob is demanding heads-- and at the wax museum, heads are what they do. -- adapted from jacket
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