Welcome to AirNenky's Cabinet of Curiosity's, a production of I Heart Radio and Grimm

and Mild.

Our world is full of the unexplainable.

And if history is an open book, all of these amazing tales are right there on display,

just waiting for us to explore.

Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosity's.

The dead are never truly gone.

We remember them in all sorts of ways.

Today we have the convenience of cameras in our pockets that can store hours of video footage

in thousands of photographs so we never forget.

Before we had such luxuries though, the dead were commemorated using other methods.

A widow might have kept some of her late husband's hair in a locket around her neck.

Deathmasks were also a popular way to preserve someone's visage by making a cast of their

face using wax or plaster.

In fact, wax was the preferred medium for Marie Groselts, who made deathmasks of some

of the French Revolution's most famous casualties.

And it was pretty easy for her too, since she only needed their heads.

Marie was born in 1761 in Strasbourg, France.

She never knew her father, he was killed in battle during the Seven Years War, two months

before she was born.

Six years later her mother uprooted the family and whisked them all off to Switzerland.

Marie's mother had found work as a housekeeper in the home of a noted doctor, Philippe

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