Madame de Pompadour was a power to be reckoned with during the reign of her lover, the French king Louis XV. Born Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, she rose through the proverbial ranks at the court of ...

Madame du Barry was presented at court as the king’s favorite in 1769, five years after the death of her predecessor, Madame de Pompadour. Her arrival caused a tremendous scandal.

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 ...

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At Barcelona Bridal Fashion Week, Vivienne Westwood's Andreas Kronthaler showed wedding dresses full of character, one creation was inspired by François Boucher's painting of King Louis XV's ...

Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour, may be best known as King Louis XV's chief mistress. But she was also a well-educated tastemaker, a patron of the arts and an artist in her own right.

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 ...

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 ...

MADAME DE POMPADOUR: Mistress to France Christine Pevitt Algrant, Christine Pevitt, . . Grove, $27.50 (338pp) ISBN 978-0-8021-1726-7 ...

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