Not quite. She started her businesses by creating dress dolls for clothing design. Her work introduced her into larger noble circles and it was the dolls that caught the eye of Marie Antoinette. Her business was flourishing long before she was roped into making death masks of guillotined nobles for revolutionaries, which she purportedly did only out of fear her association with them would lead to her own death. There is academic debate that her work on death masks might even be apocryphal; a story to boost interest in her own legend and work in the empire days.
Not quite. She started her businesses by creating dress dolls for clothing design. Her work introduced her into larger noble circles and it was the dolls that caught the eye of Marie Antoinette. Her business was flourishing long before she was roped into making death masks of guillotined nobles for revolutionaries, which she purportedly did only out of fear her association with them would lead to her own death. There is academic debate that her work on death masks might even be apocryphal; a story to boost interest in her own legend and work in the empire days.