It was 1745, and Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, the pretty young woman who would become Marquise de Pompadour, had been invited to a masked ball at Versailles. If this sounds like a chance meeting ...

Kronthaler said her dress was inspired by François Boucher's painting of Madame de Pompadour from 1759. "Vivienne would have loved it - it was her favorite dress of all time," he added.

Portrait of the Marquise de Pompadour by Maurice Quentin de La Tour, between 1748 and 1755, currently at the Louvre Museum. Public Domain Madame de Pompadour is perhaps most associated with the ...

He had not one moment to himself, but sent various friends to call on Madame de Pompadour at her uncle’s house. During the great banquet at the Hôtel de Ville she and her family dined upstairs ...

Read our privacy notice. "After us, the deluge," Madame de Pompadour is reported to have said. It is, however, difficult to believe that so silly, selfish and self-seeking a woman could ever have ...

The title of this magnificent new book—Everyday Rococo: Madame de Pompadour and Sèvres Porcelain—on a familiar, indeed almost clichéd subject is intriguing and intentionally paradoxical.

The mystique and allure of Madame de Pompadour’s partially mythic legacy has attracted the attention of generations of historians and the public. But her full legacy includes more than just ...