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At some point in our youth, probably on a school trip to the big smoke, lots of us have taken a photo with the Queen’s waxy doppelganger. Or David Beckham’s. Though Madame Tussauds has become synonymous with “tourist trap” and bizarre glitzy, global unveilings of celebrity likenesses, there’s very little known about Marie, the woman herself, whose life and work spanned the French and Industrial Revolutions. So while few will have considered the real Madame, it’s that historical context that makes her story so interesting

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