Madame de Pompadour Madame de Pompadour

Madame de Pompadour

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Publisher Description

When Madame de Pompadour became the mistress of Louis XV, no one expected her to retain his affections for long. A member of the bourgeoisie rather than an aristocrat, she was physically too cold for the carnal Bourbon king, and had so many enemies that she could not travel publicly without risking a pelting of mud and stones. History has loved her little better. Nancy Mitford’s delightfully candid biography re-creates the spirit of eighteenth-century Versailles with its love of pleasure and treachery. We learn that the Queen was a “bore,” the Dauphin a “prig,” and see France increasingly overcome with class conflict. With a fiction writer’s felicity, Mitford restores the royal mistress and celebrates her as a survivor, unsurpassed in “the art of living,” who reigned as the most powerful woman in France for nearly twenty years.

GENRE
Biographies & Memoirs
RELEASED
2001
March 31
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
296
Pages
PUBLISHER
New York Review Books
SELLER
Penguin Random House LLC
SIZE
941.2
KB

Customer Reviews

nickette327 ,

Best bio on Madame de Pompadour

I've read and reread this biography by Nancy Mitford probably five times or more. Initially I read it for pleasure, as Mitford is such an entertaining author. Then I read it alongside other biographies on Pompadour, for research purposes. I've found Mitford to have a true grasp on Pompadour as an individual entering an unwelcoming world of Court, and how she overcame these obstacles. Of all the biographies I've read, this is one of the best, and certainly the most entertaining about Madame de Pompadour

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