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The Grévin is Paris's number-one waxworks. Comparisons with Madame Tussaud's are almost irresistible, but it isn't all blood and gore and doesn't shock as much as Tussaud's. It presents French history in a series of tableaux. Depicted are the 1429 consecration of Charles VII in the Cathédrale de Reims (armored Joan of Arc, carrying her standard, stands behind the king); Marguerite de Valois, first wife of Henri IV, meeting on a Read more
Musee Grevin, founded in 1882, has almost 250 wax figures depicting personalities from French history, the art world and politics. Bump into enigmatic film director Alfred Hitchcoc Read more