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The critically acclaimed author of Philippe, Duc d'Orleans, Christine Pevitt Algrant traces Madame de Pompadour from her modest beginnings in early-eighteenth-century Paris to her reign as the undisputed mistress of Versailles.
This is the first biography of Madame de Pompadour, royal mistress to Louis XV, for many years, and gives a new interpretation of her strength as a woman.
When Madame de Pompadour became the mistress of Louis XV, no one expected her to retain his affections for long.
In this biography, historian Evelyne Lever chronicles the extraordinary life of the most famous and influential mistress of Louis XV: Jeanne-Antoinette de Pompadour - a bourgeois girl of questionable parentage who would rise to the highest ...
In this historical- ction novel that is heavily based on historical documentation, Madame de Pompadour recounts the education and experiences of her youth that led to her relationship with Louis XV, and the social and political restrictions ...
When Madame de Pompadour became the mistress of Louis XV, no one expected her to retain his affections for long.
A riveting new biography of the legendary French queen
The royal mistress was an institution in France during the reigns of Louis XIV and Louis XV, and Madame de Pompadour (1721-1764) was the most impressive and creative of them...
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This text explores Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour, who, at the age of 24, became the official mistress of Louis XV of France.
" - Madame de Pompadour Jean Antoinette Poussin, the woman who would become known as Madame de Pompadour, was a middle-class girl of uncertain parenthood who became one of many in a long line of King Louis XV's mistresses before she died at ...