An edition of Madame de Pompadour (2000)

Madame de Pompadour

a life

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An edition of Madame de Pompadour (2000)

Madame de Pompadour

a life

1st American ed.
  • 4 Want to read
  • 1 Currently reading

"In this biography, French historian Evelyne Lever chronicles the extraordinary life of the most famous and influential mistress of Louis XV: Jeanne-Antoinette de Pompadour.

This seductive, astute and resilient woman was destined to be both adored and reviled by the Court and the French public because of her relationship with one of the most powerful men in Europe, yet she was also to wield enormous influence on the culture, politics and military future of France, with an authority that far exceeded any previously exerted by an official mistress.".

"The incredible story of how a bourgeois girl of questionable parentage would rise to the highest ranks of French society, consolidate her position at Court and maintain a twenty-year relationship with Louis XV begins with a fortune-teller's prophecy that one day the young Jeanne-Antoinette would be the mistress of a King. In spite of the difficulties presented by her background, by the age of twenty-four the beautiful Jeanne-Antoinette had indeed become the favorite of the monarch.

The implications - both personal and political - of their relationship were far-reaching, and Lever skillfully illustrates how Madame de Pompadour gradually played the role not only of official mistress but also of France's second queen."--BOOK JACKET.

Publish Date
Language
English
Pages
310

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Cover of: Madame de Pompadour
Madame de Pompadour
February 20, 2003, Perrin
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Madame de Pompadour: a life
2002, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
in English - 1st American ed.
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Madame de Pompadour
2000, Perrin
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-301) and index.

Published in
New York
Genre
Biography.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
944/.034/092, B
Library of Congress
DC135.P8 L4313 2002, DC135.P8L4313 2002

The Physical Object

Pagination
viii, 310 p. :
Number of pages
310

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3559857M
Internet Archive
madamedepompadou00leve
ISBN 10
0374113084
LCCN
2002022811
OCLC/WorldCat
49225981
Library Thing
1311293
Goodreads
1211515

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