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 ...

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 ...

How Did Madame de Pompadour Come to the French Court? Madame de Pompadour was born Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson on December 29, 1721 to Francois Poisson and Louise-Madeleine de La Motte. Those close ...

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 ...

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 ...

Madame de Pompadour soportó los sermones de los confesores y procuró no dejarse afectar por las poissonades, las coplillas que se burlaban de ella haciendo alusión a su apellido de soltera ...

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 ...