Little

It's 1761, and a tiny and rather strange-looking girl is born in a town in Switzerland. They call her Anne Marie, although they will soon refer to her as Little. Soon tragedy looms over her life: her parents die, and her only way out is to become an apprentice and servant to an eccentric wax-shaper, Mr. Curtius. Splendid wax heads are observed from every angle of the workshop: Curtius fills them with rags and sawdust, and sells them on request to the richest men in Bern. From the Switzerland of her childhood to Paris, where she founded the first wax museum with Mr. Curtius, and later to Versailles, to assist Marie Antoinette in childbirth, this is the astonishing story of the most illustrious wax model of the world. French Revolution. Because the revolution demands heads from her for her tireless guillotine, and only she can get them.