The Pompadour was originally named after Madame De Pompadour, a mistress of King ... So what do these characters in anime that sport the pompadour have in common? Well, for the most part, in ...

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 ...

Madame de Pompadour ne laisserait à la postérité qu'un peu de cendre, avait prophétisé Diderot. Comme il se trompait! La célèbre favorite de Louis XV, au-delà de son goût pour la ...

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 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 ...