ILLUSTRATIONS
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Madame Tussaud at the age of 85 Frontispiece
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John Theodore Tussaud 32
Christopher Curtius 56
Louis XVI and the Duke of Orléans 56
Three Views of Voltaire’s Head 57
“The Dying Socrates” 57
Benjamin Franklin 57
Madame Tussaud at the age of 20 72
Marie Antoinette, the Dauphin, and the Duchesse D’Angoulême 72
Madame Elizabeth of France 73
Madame Elizabeth of France, Sister of Louis XVI 73
Model of the Bastille 73
M. Necker 73
Camille Desmoulins 88
Thomas Carlyle 88
Marie Antoinette 88
Jean Baptiste Carrier 88
Knife, Lunette and Chopper of the Original Guillotine 88
The Guillotine 89
Charlotte Corday 89
Jean Paul Marat 89
Maximilien Marie Isidore Robespierre 89
The Princess de Lamballe 89
Danton 89
Madame Tussaud at the age of 42 112
Her Royal Highness the Princess Charlotte of Wales and Saxe-Coburg 112
The Bristol Riots 112
Sir Charles Wetherell 112
Her Most Excellent Majesty Queen Adelaide 113
Interior of the Exhibition 113
Daniel O’Connell 113
Madame de Malibran 113
Joseph Tussaud 113
Thorwaldsen’s Celebrated Bust of the Great Napoleon 128
Napoleon’s Military Carriage General View 128
Napoleon’s Military Carriage Scene of its capture at Jenappe 128
The Empress Josephine 128
Napoleon’s Military Carriage The Interior 129
Articles Found in Napoleon’s Carriage 129
Napoleon’s Barouche 129
Father Mathew 144
Nicholas I 144
Voltaire’s Chair 145
Sir Edwin Landseer, R.A. 145
Wellington Visiting the Effigy of Napoleon 160
Sir George Hayter 160
Colour-Sergeant Gilbert H. Bates 161
William Cobbett 161
Richard Cobden 161
John Bright 178
Tichborne Claimant 178
Dr. Livingstone 179
The Prince Imperial 179
Napoleon III 179
Count Léon 192
Edward Tracy Turnerelli 192
The Turnerelli Wreath 192
King Cetewayo 193
General Boulanger 193
Lord Frederick Cavendish 208
Charles Bradlaugh 208
Sir Richard Burton 209
Head of Lord Tennyson 209
Viscount Hinton and His Organ 240
The Surrender of General Cronje 240
William Makepeace Thackeray 241
Sir Squire Bancroft 241
Bust of George Augustus Sala 288
George Augustus Sala 288
T. W. Burgess The Channel Swimmer 288
Effigy of Dr. Sun Yat Sen 289
Dr. Sun Yat Sen 289
The Children’s Lord Mayor 289
Charles Peace 320
Marquis of Hartington 320
Burke and Hare 320
Sir Thomas Lawrence 320
Key of the Bastille 320
John Williams 320
William Marwood The Hangman 321
Dr. Jackson Bishop of London 321
Count Zeppelin 321
Bismarck 321
Jack Sheppard 321
The Old Newgate Bell 321
Edith Cavell 352
Jack Cornwell, V. C. 352
Captain Fryatt 352
Field-Marshal Earl Kitchener 352
Alfred Austin 353
Tom Hood 353
Francis Tussaud 353
INTRODUCTION BY HILAIRE BELLOC