Madame de Pompadour

  • Madame de Pompadour: Ou le pouvoir féminin
    By Danielle Gallet

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  • Madame de Pompadour: Mistress of France
    By Christine Pevitt, Christine Pevitt Algrant

    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.

  • Madame de Pompadour: Sex, Culture and Power
    By Margaret Crosland

    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.

  • Madame de Pompadour
    By Nancy Mitford

    When Madame de Pompadour became the mistress of Louis XV, no one expected her to retain his affections for long.

  • Madame de Pompadour: A Life
    By Evelyne Lever

    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 ...

  • Madame de Pompadour: The Making of a Mistress
    By Nichole Dapelo

    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 ...

  • Madame de Pompadour
    By Nancy Mitford

    When Madame de Pompadour became the mistress of Louis XV, no one expected her to retain his affections for long.

  • Madame de Pompadour: A Life
    By Evelyne Lever

    A riveting new biography of the legendary French queen

  • Madame de Pompadour: Sex, Culture and Power
    By Margaret Crosland

    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...

  • Madame de Pompadour
    By M.

    Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there...

  • Madame de Pompadour: Images of a Mistress - Catalogue of the National Gallery London Exhibition 16 Oct 2002-12 Jan 2003
    By Colin Jones

    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: The Life and Legacy of French King Louis XV's Chief Mistress
    By Charles River Editors

    " - 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 ...