Madame Tussaud

CHARACTERS

Marie Antoinette: Queen of France

Comte d’Artois: Youngest brother of King Louis XVI

Baron de Besenval: Commander of the Swiss Guard; father of Abrielle de Besenval

Henri Charles: Inventor, balloonist, and showman

Jacques Charles: Mathematician, inventor, and balloonist

Philippe Curtius: Wax modeler and showman

Georges Danton: Revolutionary and journalist

Jacques-Louis David: Painter

Camille Desmoulins: Lawyer and revolutionary journalist

Lucile Duplessis: Young revolutionary engaged to Camille Desmoulins

Princesse Élisabeth: Sister of King Louis XVI

Anna Grosholtz: Mother of Marie Grosholtz

Edmund Grosholtz: Marie’s eldest brother and captain in the Swiss Guard

Isabel Grosholtz: Wife of Johann Grosholtz and mother of Paschal

Johann Grosholtz: Marie’s second-eldest brother and soldier in the Swiss Guard

Marie Grosholtz: Curtius’s “niece”; wax modeler and show-woman

Wolfgang Grosholtz: Marie’s youngest brother and soldier in the Swiss Guard

Thomas Jefferson: American ambassador to France

Marquis de Lafayette: French aristocrat and American Revolutionary War hero

Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun: Popular female painter employed by the queen

Louis-Charles: The dauphin; first son of King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette

Louis-Joseph: Second son of King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette

Louis the XVI: King of France

Jean-Paul Marat: Swiss lawyer and journalist

Comte de Mirabeau: Revolutionary and journalist

Duc d’Orléans: Cousin of King Louis XVI who later changes his name to Philippe Égalité

Comte de Provence: Eldest brother of King Louis XVI

Maximilien Robespierre: Lawyer from Arras, revolutionary

Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Philosopher and writer

Marquis de Sade: Criminal and writer

Princesse Marie-Thérèse: Daughter of King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette