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 ...

Sin duda, Madame de Pompadour, amante oficial del rey francés ... Era vanidosa, -cuentan sus biógrafos que le gustaba cambiarse de ropa varias veces al día-, pero además era una mujer ...

With their currently running production of the Austrian composer’s “Madame Pompadour” at the Vittum Theater on Chicago’s Near North Side, the company’s husband-and-wife directors ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...