MADAME DE POMPADOUR (324 pp ... The only interesting thing about her childhood comes from an account book, where she records payment of 600 livres to a fortune teller “for having predicted ...

Wager centers the show on a portfolio of etchings made by Pompadour herself, on display now for the first time after the museum's founder, Henry Walters, purchased them from a Parisian book ...

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.