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100 1 $aLever, Evelyne.
240 10 $aMadame de Pompadour.$lEnglish
245 10 $aMadame de Pompadour :$ba life /$cEvelyne Lever ; translated from the French by Catherine Temerson.
250 $aFirst American edition.
260 $aNew York :$bFarrar, Straus and Giroux,$c2002.
264 1 $aNew York :$bFarrar, Straus and Giroux,$c[2002]
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300 $aviii, 310 pages, [8] pages of plates :$billustrations (some color) ;$c24 cm.
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 297-301) and index.
505 0 $aDeath of a favorite -- Madame d'Etiolles -- A steady rise to the top -- The summer of Fontenoy -- The court -- Debut in this country -- The oracle of the court -- Theater in the private apartments -- Pleasures and days -- A well-trained odalisque -- The Poissonades -- The life I lead is dreadful -- The shadow of Madame de Maintenon -- 1752 : the year of living dangerously -- A duchess high and low -- Patroness of the arts -- The temptation of politics -- Secret negotiations -- Arrangements with the powers on high -- The assassination attempt -- The giddiness of power -- A perpetual combat -- Bernis's fall from grace -- The king, the minister and the Marquise -- One moment, Monsieur le Cure.
520 $aWhen Jeanne Antoinette Poisson was a child, a fortune-teller predicted that she would one day be the mistress of a king. Born into the financial bourgeoisie that was a world apart from the royal court, the beautiful Jeanne Antoinette nonetheless fulfilled this prophecy by becoming Madame de Pompadour, the most famous and influential mistress of Louis XV. In this sumptuous biography, Evelyne Lever traces the enduring friendship between the monarch and his favorite, and the far-reaching implications-both personal and political-of their relationship. Pompadour was devoted to Louis XV, and her contribution to the culture of the age was significant: she was an outstanding singer and actress, entertaining the King and the court in impressive stage productions, and was a longtime patron of the visual arts. She commissioned paintings by Boucher, Nattier, Van Loo, La Tour, and Pigalle, and she formed friendships with many of the philosophers and writers of the period, including Fontenelle, Cr{226}ebillon, and Voltaire. In effect, she was France's minister of culture at a time when no such position existed. But she was loathed for her role in France's disastrous military losses, and was the victim of persistent court gossip and intrigues. - Publisher.
600 00 $aPompadour, Jeanne Antoinette Poisson,$cmarquise de,$d1721-1764.
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