Madame de Pompadour
mistress of France
by Christine Pevitt
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"This new biography of the legendary mistress of King Louis XV of France offers a dramatic insight into the life of one of the most enchanting, powerful, and feared women to grace the world's stage.".
"Christine Pevitt Algrant presents a new biography of the most famous of Louis XV's mistresses. From her modest beginnings in early eighteenth-century Paris, to her reign as the undisputed mistress of Versailles, Madame de Pompadour traces the life of a truly remarkable, self-made woman whose astonishing rise confounded the most experienced and the most sophisticated of her contemporaries."--BOOK JACKET.
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Biography, Mistresses, Kings and rulers, Favorites, Royal, History, Relations with women, Royal Favorites, Paramours, Pompadour, jeanne antoinette (poisson) marquis de, 1721-1769, Louis xv, king of france, 1710-1774, Favorites, royal, France, kings and rulersPeople
Louis XV King of France (1710-1774), Jeanne Antoinette Poisson Pompadour marquise de (1721-1764)Places
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Madame de Pompadour: mistress of France
2002, Grove Press, Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
in English
- 1st ed.
0802117260 9780802117267
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [323]-327) and index.
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