She Was Buried at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on September 29, 2013

 172 Years Ago Today

Tuesday 16th of April 1850

Wax sculptor Marie Tussaud dies of natural causes at the age of 89 in London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

She was buried at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on September 29, 2013. Tussaud was born on 3rd June 1782 in Port-de-Courcelette, in Belgium. Her son was born in Belgium at the age of twelve. In 1694 she left her native Poinsettia, just outside of Paris. In 1695 she moved to the French city of Sainte-Anne and was able to marry Henry VIII of France. She spent some time as a cook in her native Poinsettia while the two moved to the city after Henry's death. Tussaud spent a long career as a seamstress and her children gave her considerable insight into the work she was doing and the life she lived through as a seamstress herself. Tussaud's husband Edward of Arras was buried at her mother's grave at the Royal Poinsettia in Paris on November 8, 1774. The couple married at Saint Mary's, in Paris and Tussaud's late husband Edward died in 1827.
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