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Authors: Michelle Moran
Madame Tussaud: A Novel of the French Revolution
A
LSO BY
M
ICHELLE
M
ORAN
Nefertiti
The Heretic Queen
Cleopatra’s Daughter
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
Copyright © 2011 by Michelle Moran
All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Crown Publishers, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Moran, Michelle.
Madame Tussaud : a novel of the French revolution / Michelle Moran.—1st ed.
p. cm.
1. Tussaud, Marie, 1761–1850. 2. Wax modelers—France—Fiction.
3. France—History—Revolution, 1789–1799—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3613.O682M33 2011
813′.6—dc22 2010035785
eISBN: 978-0-307-58867-8
Map by David Cain
Jacket design by Jennifer O’Connor
Jacket photography by Richard Jenkins Photography (woman);
© Rudy Sulgan/CORBIS (background); Dorling Kindersley (ring)
v3.1
For my editors
Heather Lazare, Matthew Carter, and Allison McCabe
À tout seigneur tout honneur
Contents
Time Line for the French Revolution
Chapter 1 - Paris: December 12, 1788
Chapter 31 - September 7, 1789
Chapter 36 - December 25, 1789
Chapter 41 - September 14, 1791
Chapter 42 - November 29, 1791
Chapter 46 - July 25–August 14, 1792
Chapter 48 - August 29, 1792–September 2, 1792
Chapter 49 - September 2, 1792
Chapter 50 - September 21, 1792–January 17, 1793
Chapter 51 - January 20–21, 1793
Chapter 54 - February 17, 1793
Chapter 56 - June 1, 1793–July 5, 1793
Chapter 58 - August–October 1793
Chapter 59 - November 6–8, 1793
Chapter 62 - June 15, 1794–July 1794
Epilogue: England: August 11, 1802
T
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for the
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RENCH
R
EVOLUTION
| DATE | EVENT |
| May 5, 1789 | The Estates-General meets at Versailles, bringing together all three estates: the clergy, the nobility, and the commoners |
| June 17, 1789 | The Third Estate, made up of commoners, declares itself the National Assembly |
| July 14, 1789 | Fall of the Bastille |
| August 27, 1789 | Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen is adopted |
| October 5–6, 1789 | Parisian women march on Versailles and force the royal family to move to Paris |
| October 1, 1791 | Meeting of the Legislative Assembly |
| April 20, 1792 | France declares war on Austria |
| August 10, 1792 | After the storming of the Tuileries Palace, the royal family takes refuge with the Legislative Assembly |
| September 2–6, 1792 | The September Massacres |
| September 21, 1792 | The monarchy is abolished |
| January 21, 1793 | Louis XVI is executed |
| February 1, 1793 | France declares war on Great Britain |
| April 6, 1793 | The Committee of Public Safety is created with the intent of rooting out all “traitors” and anyone deemed a threat to the Revolution |
| October 5, 1793 | The Revolutionary Calendar is adopted, with Year One beginning on September 22, 1792 |
| October 16, 1793 | Queen Marie Antoinette is executed |
| May 7, 1794 | Cult of the Supreme Being proclaimed by Robespierre |
| June 8, 1794 | Robespierre leads the celebration of the Festival of the Supreme Being |
| June 10, 1794 | The Law of 22 Prairial is adopted, encouraging citizens to denounce anyone who might be a counterrevolutionary |
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