In the late 1780s she was also Curtius's neighbour in the Palais Royal where she ran a fashionable gambling club, the "Cinquante" at no.50 des Arcades. "Madame de Sainte-Amaranthe", born in 1752, was the daughter of the duc de Saint-Simon and a prominent society hostess. The account is confused, mainly because two figures, mother and daughter, are conflated. The biographical information is essentially the same in all the catalogues: Madame de Sainte-Amaranthe was the wife of a Lieutenant-Colonel of the Royal Bodyguards, who was guillotined when she rejected the advances of Robespierre.
Robespierre, at that time in full power, soon found a pretext for bringing her before a revolutionary tribunal, when she was tried, condemned, and beheaded, at the age of twenty-two. She was one of the most beautiful women in France, and had the misfortune to been seen by Robespierre who, charmed by her graceful attractions, sought her for his mistress, and was repelled with indignation. Her husband had been a lieutenant-colonel in the body guards of Louis XVI, and was killed in the assault of the Tuilleries on the 10th of August.
The Tussaud Memoirs supply the following: Only her heaving bosom reassures us she is still alive! She is supplied with an amorphous dark gown, a massive crucifix and the stern figure of Madame Tussaud herself as a chaperone. It is intriguing to note how, in this incarnation, Sleeping Beauty has been denuded of her provocative sexuality. The earliest I can find on the web was published in Bristol in 1823 and has the following entry: The early Tussaud catalogues all featured "Madame de Sainte-Amaranthe". The waxworks figures are described as "taken from life, from masks moulded on the persons themselves, or from the best original paintings" and included "Charlotte Corday, Mlle. Richard Altick in The Shows of London (1978) mentions a programme in the British Library for a show at 87 Pall Mall in 1802 which may be tentatively identified as a early reference to the Tussaud exhibition. These identical figures, as already stated, are still in the collection (1921 ed. Amaranthe (Tussaud's "Sleeping Beauty"), taken a few months before her execution. Thus John Theodore Tussaud, in the Romance of Madame Tussaud:Īmong the figures taken on tour at this time were models of Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette and the Dauphin, Voltaire and Madame St. In the early days of the Tussaud travelling exhibition the figure was identified as a now largely forgotten society beauty called Madame de Sainte-Amaranthe. If you look carefully, you also see she that she has sported a number of different dresses - or at least bodices and bows - over the last decade or so. In earlier photos on the internet the Beauty is definitely the worse for wear, whereas now she appears brand new. It has also been replaced or completely revamped very recently - I'm convinced it wasn't there at all when I visited Madame Tussaud's in August 2010. The model was certainly replaced after the fire of 1925. Several Merlin Pass memberships are available so if you’re not sure which one would best suit you, more information is available on the Merlin Pass website here.It should also be emphasised that it is not the wax figure, but the mould, if it still exists, which is 18th-century. The Merlin Pass is available to use at a variety of Merlin Entertainment attractions. How to buy a Merlin Pass for Madame Tussauds Blackpool It takes a total of 800 hours collectively including 350 hours to sculpt the figure, 187 hours to insert a head of hair and 30 hours to make a set of teeth. It takes a team of 25 artists to work on one wax figure. “I’m incredibly proud to launch the UK’s first ever drag queen wax figure, RuPaul, she really is a sight to behold, and at over seven feet high our tallest human figure ever, I have no doubt Mama Ru will be a big draw and in the words of the iconic star, shantay!”
Stuart Jarman, General Manager at Madame Tussauds Blackpool, said: “Thanks to the popularity of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK, drag has become more mainstream in the UK and it is important that Madame Tussauds embrace, support and represent the LBGTQ+ community with this launch.
The world-famous drag queen’s figure is situated at the end of a runway, which pays homage to RuPaul's Drag Race BBC reality competition series, and features some of the iconic artist's famous quotes. RuPaul's waxwork at Madame Tussaud's Blackpool (Madame Tussauds Blackpool) Lancashire Telegraph: RuPaul's waxwork at Madame Tussaud's Blackpool (Madame Tussauds Blackpool)
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