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The year is 1788, and a trend is about to begin.... Marie Tussaud has learned the secrets of polish sculpting by working alongside her uncle in their famous polish museum, the Salon de Cire. From her popular style of the American ambassador Thomas Jefferson to her tableau of the royal family at supper, Marie's museum provides Parisians with the latest reports on fashion, gossip, even politics. Her customers hail out of every walk of life, and when word will come that the royals themselves are coming to see their likenesses, Marie never dreams that the king's sister will demand her occurrence at Versailles as a royal tutor in polish sculpting. Yet when a notice with a silver seal is delivered to her home, Marie is aware she cannot refuse---even if it means time from her cherished Salon and her increasingly dear good friend Henri Charles. As Marie becomes familiar with her pupil, Princess Elisabeth, she is taken up to meet both Marie Antoinette and King Louis XVI, who present her to the glamorous life at judge. From lavish parties with an increase of delicacies than she's ever seen to rooms filled with candles lit only once before being discarded, Marie steps into to a global entirely not the same as her home on the Boulevard du Temple, where people are available their teeth in order to put food on the table. Meanwhile, many resent the huge separation between wealthy and poor. In salons and cafes across Paris, people like Camille Desmoulins, Jean-Paul Marat, and Maximilien Robespierre are lashing out up against the monarchy. Soon, there's whispered converse of trend. Will Marie have the ability to hold on to both love of her life and her a friendly relationship with the royal family as France techniques civil war? More important, will she have the ability to fulfill the needs of powerful revolutionaries who ask that she make the death masks of beheaded aristocrats, some of whom she is aware?
