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Garoo


15 oct. 2017

@atlasobscura

Marie was not a “white lace and piano lessons” sort of girl: instead, she made death masks from guillotined heads [trib.al]

How the Real Madame Tussaud Built a Business Out of Beheadings

Marie Grosholtz sure loved to make death masks of freshly executed criminals.

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