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Madame Tussaud by Michelle Moran

Monday, February 28th, 2011 | Michelle Moran | No Comments

I am halfway through the novel MADAME TUSSAUD and I find myself completely gripped by it. Though Michelle Moran brings the horrors of the French Revolution to life, she also has given life to the courageous woman Marie Grosholtz, aka Madame Tussaud. I know from history that Marie survives the Revolution, but I am drawn into her family’s web as well, and I have no assurance that they will survive in the pages of this book. That is the wonder of fiction, isn’t it? It makes the dead live again, and it makes me care about them as if they were my neighbors or my friends.

A brilliant quote that heads chapter 23 in this novel:

“Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them.” Suzanne Necker, wife of Jacques Necker, Minister of Finance

In MADAME TUSSAUD, it is the past that is being unmasked for me, as well as the people who lived during that time, all of  whom have come to life again in the pages of this book.

Michelle Moran and Madame Tussaud

Wednesday, February 9th, 2011 | Michelle Moran | 2 Comments

And in lovely web news unrelated to Eleanor, Michelle Moran has released the book trailer for her new novel, MADAME TUSSAUD, coming out in stories on February 15. Here’s her trailer, in case you haven’t caught it yet…

And in case you’re wondering, as I was, as far as I can tell, no Madame Tussaud’s has a wax figure of Eleanor…Yet…