It is said that during the french Revolution, Madame de Lamballe was attacked hacked to shreds with hammers and knives, and her head stuck on a pike (not her best moment) but it is also said that Madame Tussuad's made a wax death mask of her severed head just as she did many others, does anyone have a picture of the death mask or anywhere i can find it, Thanks.Princess Madame de Lamballe, where can i find pic of her death mask?
If madame Tussaud made a death mask of Priness Lamballe then it is gone along with all the original material that she crafted.
There was quite a lot of material made by M Tussaud lost when there was a storm in the Irish sea as she travelled to Dublin from Liverpool but the final straw was a fire at the waxworks next to Euston around 1930 ish I think which destroyed virtually everything.
There is one single item remaining that Madame Tussaud made with her own hands which is still on view ---it is called ';Sleeping Beauty'; and is a lady lying on a couch and her chest moves rhythmically as she sleeps. It is probably Madame du Barry from the days when Tussaud lived in Versailles.
There are 2 great biographies of Madame Tussaud for more info
Best wishesPrincess Madame de Lamballe, where can i find pic of her death mask?
Beaten to the line. Tussaud's original work was all lost or destroyed.
thought i had it but it wasnt.
FRANCE in Termoil
Fall of Versailles
On October 5, 1789, rumors spread in Paris that the royals were hoarding all the grain. A hungry and angry mob of peasants decided to march on Versailles. Fortunately, one of the king's courtiers, the young Duc de Fronsac, was in the city at the time and ran on foot through the woods to the palace to warn Marie Antoinette of the angry mob's furor. An emergency meeting was held to determine what the royal strategy should be with Marie Antoinette once again repeating her plea that the king and his family flee. The king refused insisting that it was his duty to stay.
Aware that she was the primary target of the mob's anger, Marie Antoinette chose to sleep alone that evening. She left strict instructions with the Marquise de Tourzel that she was to take the children straight to the king if there were any disturbances.
In the early hours of the morning the mob broke into the palace. The queen's guards were massacred. She and her two ladies-in-waiting only narrowly escaped with their lives before the crowd burst in and ransacked her chambers. Taking the Duc de Fronsac's advice, the three ladies ran to the king's bedchamber. The king's younger sister, Madame 脡lisabeth, was already there, and when the children arrived the doors were locked.
A large crowd gathered in the palace's courtyard and demanded that the queen come to the balcony. She appeared in her night-robe, accompanied by her two children. The queen then stood alone for almost ten minutes, whilst many in the crowd pointed muskets at her. She then bowed her head and returned inside. Some in the mob were so impressed by her bravery that they cried ';Vive la Reine!';
The royals were forced to return with the mob to Paris. They were taken to the dilapidated Tuileries Palace, which had last been used during the reign of Louis XIV. The Marquis de la Fayette, a liberal aristocrat who had embraced many American ideas when he fought for George Washington, was placed in charge of the royal family's security. When he met the queen, he bluntly told her, ';Your Majesty is a prisoner. Yes, it's true. Since Her Majesty no longer has her Guard of Honour, she is a prisoner.'; Other royal ';prisoners'; included Louis XVI's sister, 脡lisabeth, and his other brother, the Comte de Provence.
Desperate to reassure her friends, Marie Antoinette sent a short note to the Austrian ambassador saying, ';I'm fine, don't worry.';[12] Although the Royal family kept up some pretense of their usual activities, they were watched closely, and the monarchy would continually be under siege in one form or another from then on.
Madame de Lamballe - try these links below. . . .
http://entertainment.webshots.com/photo/鈥?/a>
http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/鈥?/a>
Cut and Paste from Wikipedia
Murder
On 19 August, she and the Marquise de Tourzel, governess to the royal children, were separated from the royal family and transferred to La Force prison.[5] On 3 September, she was brought before a hastily assembled tribunal, who demanded she swear an oath of perpetual hatred against the French monarchy. This she refused to do on principle and shortly thereafter was brutally murdered.[6]
Some reports allege that she was raped and had her breasts cut off in addition to other bodily mutilations.[7][8] Most reports agree that her head was cut off, stuck on a pike and then carried away to a nearby caf茅 where it was laid down in front of the customers, who were asked to drink in celebration of her death.[7] There are other reports stating that the head was taken to a barber in order to dress the hair to make it instantly recognizable,[8] though this has been contested.[6] Following this, the head was replaced upon the pike and was paraded beneath Marie Antoinette鈥檚 prison window at the Temple.[9] Those who were carrying it wished the Queen to kiss the lips of her favourite, as it was a frequent rumor that the two had been lovers. The head was not allowed to be brought into the building, but the Queen's guards did force her to look out of the window at the sight, whereupon the Queen fainted almost immediately.[9]
Five citizens of the local section in Paris delivered her body (minus her head which was then being displayed on a pike) to the authorities shortly after her death. Royalist accounts of the incident claimed her body was displayed on the street for a full day. Her heartbroken father-in-law finally succeeded in retrieving her corpse and had it interred in the Penthri猫vre family crypt in the cathedral at Dreux.[10] Marie Grosholtz, more famously known as Madame Tussaud, was ordered to make the death mask.[11]
http://blog.raucousroyals.com/2009/01/ma鈥?/a>
http://books.google.com/books?id=yFEgper鈥?/a>
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