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Madame de Pompadour

Author : Nancy Mitford
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1590175301
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Madame de Pompadour written by Nancy Mitford and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2012-05-09 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Madame de Pompadour became the mistress of Louis XV, no one expected her to retain his affections for long. A member of the bourgeoisie rather than an aristocrat, she was physically too cold for the carnal Bourbon king, and had so many enemies that she could not travel publicly without risking a pelting of mud and stones. History has loved her little better. Nancy Mitford’s delightfully candid biography re-creates the spirit of eighteenth-century Versailles with its love of pleasure and treachery. We learn that the Queen was a “bore,” the Dauphin a “prig,” and see France increasingly overcome with class conflict. With a fiction writer’s felicity, Mitford restores the royal mistress and celebrates her as a survivor, unsurpassed in “the art of living,” who reigned as the most powerful woman in France for nearly twenty years.

Madame de Pompadour

Author : Evelyne Lever
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312310509
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Madame de Pompadour written by Evelyne Lever and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-09 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this biography, historian Evelyne Lever chronicles the extraordinary life of the most famous and influential mistress of Louis XV: Jeanne-Antoinette de Pompadour - a bourgeois girl of questionable parentage who would rise to the highest ranks of French society and maintain a twenty-year relationship with Louis XV.

Madame de Pompadour

Author : Christine Pevitt
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802140357
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Madame de Pompadour written by Christine Pevitt and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biography of the legendary mistress of King Louis XV offers dramatic insight into the life of one of the most enchanting, powerful, and feared women to grace the world's stage. Groomed from an early age to assume the role of a rich man's mistress, Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson underwent several transformations before she caught the heart of the king himself. Although accustomed to the king's extramarital relationships, the court was shocked at the sudden ascension of the low-born Mademoiselle Poisson. The newcomer, however, wasted no time in establishing herself as the king's sole confidante and, ultimately, his indispensable partner in affairs of state. The critically acclaimed author of Philippe, Duc d'Orleans, Christine Pevitt Algrant traces Madame de Pompadour from her modest beginnings in early-eighteenth-century Paris to her reign as the undisputed mistress of Versailles. Filled with photographs, and evocative and insightful in its telling, Madame de Pompadour is a seductive portrait of one of the most fascinating and influential women of the age.

The Rivals of Versailles

Author : Sally Christie
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501102990
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book The Rivals of Versailles written by Sally Christie and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "And you thought sisters were a thing to fear. In this scandalous follow-up to Sally Christie's clever and absorbing debut, we meet none other than the Marquise de Pompadour, one of the greatest beauties of her generation and the first bourgeois mistress ever to grace the hallowed halls of Versailles. I write this before her blood is even cold. She is dead, suddenly, from a high fever. The King is inconsolable, but the way is now clear. The way is now clear. The year is 1745. Marie-Anne, the youngest of the infamous Nesle sisters and King Louis XV's most beloved mistress, is gone, making room for the next Royal Favorite. Enter Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, a stunningly beautiful girl from the middle classes. Fifteen years prior, a fortune teller had mapped out young Jeanne's destiny: she would become the lover of a king and the most powerful woman in the land. Eventually connections, luck, and a little scheming pave her way to Versailles and into the King's arms. All too soon, conniving politicians and hopeful beauties seek to replace the bourgeois interloper with a more suitable mistress. As Jeanne, now the Marquise de Pompadour, takes on her many rivals--including a lustful lady-in-waiting; a precocious fourteen-year-old prostitute, and even a cousin of the notorious Nesle sisters--she helps the king give himself over to a life of luxury and depravity. Around them, war rages, discontent grows, and France inches ever closer to the Revolution. Enigmatic beauty, social climber, actress, trendsetter, patron of the arts, spendthrift, whoremonger, friend, lover, foe. History books may say many things about the famous Marquise de Pompadour, but one thing is clear: for almost twenty years, she ruled France and the King's heart. Told in Christie's witty and modern style, this second book in the Mistresses of Versailles trilogy will delight and entrance fans as it once again brings to life the world of eighteenth century Versailles in all its pride, pestilence and glory"--

Madame de Pompadour

Author : Margaret Crosland
Publisher : Sutton Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780750929561
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (295 download)

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Download or read book Madame de Pompadour written by Margaret Crosland and published by Sutton Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first biography of Madame de Pompadour, royal mistress to Louis XV, for many years, and gives a new interpretation of her strength as a woman.

Everyday Rococo

Author : Rosalind Savill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781916495715
Total Pages : 704 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (957 download)

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Download or read book Everyday Rococo written by Rosalind Savill and published by . This book was released on 2021-10-28 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyday Rococo: Madame de Pompadour and Sevres Porcelain is a year-on-year richly-illustrated chronology of her daily life and purchases

Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois, Queen of France, Wife of Henri IV; of Madame de Pompadour of the Court of Louis XV; and of Catherine de Medici, Queen of France, Wife of Henri II

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Author : Queen Marguerite (consort of Henry IV, King of France)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois, Queen of France, Wife of Henri IV; of Madame de Pompadour of the Court of Louis XV; and of Catherine de Medici, Queen of France, Wife of Henri II written by Queen Marguerite (consort of Henry IV, King of France) and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Portraits of Madame de Pompadour

Author : Elise Goodman
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520217942
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (179 download)

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Download or read book The Portraits of Madame de Pompadour written by Elise Goodman and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An immensely eloquent tour de force, demonstrating the complex and often contradictory position of women in both intellectual and visual culture. Goodman examines Pompadour as an icon of court culture who simultaneously represents sexuality and the life of the mind. The paintings are the visual record of a remarkable and self-conscious fashioning of femininity." --Dympna Callaghan, author of Feminist Companion to Shakespeare "Elise goodman's stimulating and richly illustrated study recovers the visual record of women's place in the French Enlightenment. She traces a trend, engineered as much by the women themselves as by the artists who painted them, in which learning joins beauty to create a new iconography of female portraiture." --Susan S Lanser, author of Fictions of Authority: Women Writers and Narrative Voice.

Madame de Pompadour

Author : Colin Jones
Publisher : National Gallery London
ISBN 13 : 9780300094206
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (942 download)

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Download or read book Madame de Pompadour written by Colin Jones and published by National Gallery London. This book was released on 2002-11-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This beautiful book explores the personality of a woman who became a legend in her own lifetime, and explains how her sexual and political power influenced the most sophisticated and degenerate society in Europe of the time

Madame Vampire

Author : Robin Burks
Publisher : Crossroad Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Madame Vampire written by Robin Burks and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2018-06-14 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of my life is written in blood. It is a long tale, for I have lived a long life, but I fear that my time grows short. Even now, a shadow follows me, bringing with it le morte. If I die, let it be known that I lived. I am Jeanne “Reinette” Antoinette Poisson, Madame de Pompadour, mistress to a king, marquise and vampire. I have killed many. I regret rien, nothing.

The Enemies of Versailles

Author : Sally Christie
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501103040
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book The Enemies of Versailles written by Sally Christie and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-03-21 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the final installment of Sally Christie’s “tantalizing” (New York Daily News) Mistresses of Versailles trilogy, Jeanne Becu, a woman of astounding beauty but humble birth, works her way from the grimy back streets of Paris to the palace of Versailles, where the aging King Louis XV has become a jaded and bitter old philanderer. Jeanne bursts into his life and, as the Comtesse du Barry, quickly becomes his official mistress. “That beastly bourgeois Pompadour was one thing; a common prostitute is quite another kettle of fish.” After decades of suffering the King's endless stream of Royal Favorites, the princesses of the Court have reached a breaking point. Horrified that he would bring the lowborn Comtesse du Barry into the hallowed halls of Versailles, Louis XV’s daughters, led by the indomitable Madame Adelaide, vow eternal enmity and enlist the dauphine Marie Antoinette in their fight against the new mistress. But as tensions rise and the French Revolution draws closer, a prostitute in the palace soon becomes the least of the nobility’s concerns. Told in Christie’s witty and engaging style, the final book in The Mistresses of Versailles trilogy will delight and entrance fans as it once again brings to life the sumptuous and cruel world of eighteenth century Versailles, and France as it approaches irrevocable change.

Madame de Pompadour

Author : Mark Ledbury
Publisher : Harvard Art Museums
ISBN 13 : 9780300263817
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (638 download)

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Download or read book Madame de Pompadour written by Mark Ledbury and published by Harvard Art Museums. This book was released on 2022-05-10 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh take on a beloved masterpiece of portraiture, focusing on the complex significance of the color pink in eighteenth-century France François Boucher's 1750 half-length portrait of Madame de Pompadour--influential court figure and mistress to King Louis XV--has been the subject of much art historical attention, particularly with regard to gender and representation. Building on that foundation, this volume turns toward an underappreciated aspect of the portrait: the use and significance of the color pink. Four scholarly essays, including one by noted Boucher expert Mark Ledbury, establish a framework that connects Pompadour's fondness and promotion of the color, Boucher's artistic association with the color, and developments in the material basis of the color, including its application in other media such as porcelain. This engaging close look offers new ways to understand the portrait, revealing its links to motherhood and sentiment, race and the transatlantic slave trade, and the crosscurrents of natural history and scientific discovery.

Marie Antoinette

Author : Evelyne Lever
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312283339
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (833 download)

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Download or read book Marie Antoinette written by Evelyne Lever and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2001-09-24 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the French queen explores the intrigue surrounding her life from her birth, through her unhappy marriage, her lavish life at Versailles, to the events leading up to her death by beheading during the French Revolution.

The Hunt After Jeanne-Antoinette de Pompadour

Author : Rosamond Hooper-Hamersley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780739149638
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (496 download)

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Download or read book The Hunt After Jeanne-Antoinette de Pompadour written by Rosamond Hooper-Hamersley and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book recast the import of Mme de Pompadour as a political and artistic patron at the court of Versailles in mid eighteenth century France. Her visual record is lush and archival and printed sources demonstrate the degree to which she dazzled and enlightened culture, leaver her considerable imprint on pre-revolutionary France.

Memoirs of the Marchioness of Pompadour

Author : Marianne-Agnès Pillement Dame Fauques
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781019571286
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (712 download)

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Download or read book Memoirs of the Marchioness of Pompadour written by Marianne-Agnès Pillement Dame Fauques and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Journey back in time to the 18th century and discover the life of Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, the Marquise of Pompadour, in her own words. This memoir provides an intimate look into Pompadour's experiences at the Court of Versailles, her relationships with King Louis XV, the politics and intrigues of the time, and her own motivations and desires. An essential read for any fan of French history or 18th-century literature. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Madame de Pompadour

Author : Nancy Mitford
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 094032265X
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Madame de Pompadour written by Nancy Mitford and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2001-03-31 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Madame de Pompadour became the mistress of Louis XV, no one expected her to retain his affections for long. A member of the bourgeoisie rather than an aristocrat, she was physically too cold for the carnal Bourbon king, and had so many enemies that she could not travel publicly without risking a pelting of mud and stones. History has loved her little better.Nancy Mitford's delightfully candid biography re-creates the spirit of eighteenth-century Versailles with its love of pleasure and treachery. We learn that the Queen was a "bore," the Dauphin a "prig," and see France increasingly overcome with class conflict. With a fiction writer's felicity, Mitford restores the royal mistress and celebrates her as a survivor, unsurpassed in "the art of living," who reigned as the most powerful woman in France for nearly twenty years.

Before the Deluge

Author : Michael Sonenscher
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400827701
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Before the Deluge written by Michael Sonenscher and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-08-10 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since the French Revolution, Madame de Pompadour's comment, "Après moi, le déluge" (after me, the deluge), has looked like a callous if accurate prophecy of the political cataclysms that began in 1789. But decades before the Bastille fell, French writers had used the phrase to describe a different kind of selfish recklessness--not toward the flood of revolution but, rather, toward the flood of public debt. In Before the Deluge, Michael Sonenscher examines these fears and the responses to them, and the result is nothing less than a new way of thinking about the intellectual origins of the French Revolution. In this nightmare vision of the future, many prerevolutionary observers predicted that the pressures generated by modern war finance would set off a chain of debt defaults that would either destroy established political orders or cause a sudden lurch into despotic rule. Nor was it clear that constitutional government could keep this possibility at bay. Constitutional government might make public credit more secure, but public credit might undermine constitutional government itself. Before the Deluge examines how this predicament gave rise to a widespread eighteenth-century interest in figuring out how to establish and maintain representative governments able to realize the promise of public credit while avoiding its peril. By doing so, the book throws new light on a neglected aspect of modern political thought and on the French Revolution.