Studying history makes life more fun

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Tussauds.<blockquote id="512c">Madame Tussauds is the name of a huge wax museum in London. It was founded by Marie Tussaud, a French-woman, in 1834.</blockquote><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6591190/">The documentary</a> was fascinating, and I learned plenty. Notably that:<ul><li>Marie Tussaud’s father was an executioner</li><li>She learned to make wax portraits of the French nobility before the Revolution</li><li>She was then forced to make (death) portraits of people who were guillotined during the French Revolution (most of them were her friends)</li></ul>A little gruesome, isn’t it? Yes. A little random, too, perhaps. But, it ended up being extremely relevant knowledge when, while on our way to Trinity College, we walked in front of the Dublin’s Wax Museum, and I saw this.<figure id="aed2"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/1*LoW7hIUP9MiAjpr_c-YbrA.jpe

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g"><figcaption>Stormy clouds, CC BY-SA 4.0 <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons</figcaption></figure>I have no idea if this was an intentional homage to Marie Tussaud’s original work. But it sure is bloody appropriate.<h1 id="3e41">Study history, it makes life more fun</h1>This goes to show, that the more you learn, the more you can find interesting stuff to look at, even in places you have walked by many many times.And I think this is especially true when it comes to history.Everything eventually ended better for Marie Tussaud, who left France for England to tour with a collection of wax portraits, and settled in London, where she opened a wildly successful museum.More stories from me <a href="https://medium.com/@circecreates">here</a>.</article></body>

Studying history makes life more fun

This summer, I went to Dublin. I love Dublin. I lived there a couple of years, and it’s safe to say that those years might have been some of the most interesting ones of my life.

It’s not the first time I’m coming back for a quick visit. This year, though, I thought it might not be as fun as it used to. The city itself doesn’t change that much, and once you have seen the main attractions a couple of times, visiting them again is not as exciting. But I was there with my mum, my sister-in-law, her mum and a cousin of mine. And half of them didn’t know Dublin. So off we went to take a tour of Trinity College, Grafton Street, Saint Stephen’s Green, etc.

And you know what? I was wrong.

A few weeks prior to going, I watched a documentary.

It was one about Marie Tussaud, AKA Madame Tussauds.

Madame Tussauds is the name of a huge wax museum in London. It was founded by Marie Tussaud, a French-woman, in 1834.

The documentary was fascinating, and I learned plenty. Notably that:

Marie Tussaud’s father was an executioner

She learned to make wax portraits of the French nobility before the Revolution

She was then forced to make (death) portraits of people who were guillotined during the French Revolution (most of them were her friends)

A little gruesome, isn’t it? Yes. A little random, too, perhaps. But, it ended up being extremely relevant knowledge when, while on our way to Trinity College, we walked in front of the Dublin’s Wax Museum, and I saw this.

I have no idea if this was an intentional homage to Marie Tussaud’s original work. But it sure is bloody appropriate.

Study history, it makes life more fun

This goes to show, that the more you learn, the more you can find interesting stuff to look at, even in places you have walked by many many times.

And I think this is especially true when it comes to history.

Everything eventually ended better for Marie Tussaud, who left France for England to tour with a collection of wax portraits, and settled in London, where she opened a wildly successful museum.