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Absolute authority: chin up, proud bust and a contemptuous attitude, the Sun King rules.

The Second Empire (1852) made the imperial legend of Napoleon official with commissions of sculptures installed in public squares and paintings exhibited in museums. Here is a recreation sculpted of empire blue wax, meant to collect, not to burn.

Louise and Alexandre were the children of architect Alexandre- Théodore Brongniart (1739-1813), famous for designing the Stock Exchange building in Paris and transforming the Père Lachaise Cemetery—now preserved in wax sculptures by Trudon.

This little-known copy of Marie-Antoinette of Austria is an idealized portrait of the queen instead of the evocation of a sovereign at the height of her power, romantic and soft with the cloth draping her shoulders. Sculpted of stone-colored wax.

Absolute authority: chin up, proud bust and a contemptuous attitude, the Sun King rules. This unscented, navy blue bust candle is a symbol of French history immortalized in a 7-meter high monumental sculpture by François Girardon (1699), sculpted in wax.