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Madame de Pompadour

by Nancy Mitford

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ISBN13: 9780940322653
ISBN10: 094032265x
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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. "No historian writing in English has given a better pen-picture of Versailles in its heyday." — Time
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ISBN:
9780940322653
Introduction:
Foreman, Amanda
Author:
Foreman, Amanda
Author:
Mitford, Nancy
Publisher:
New York Review of Books
Location:
New York, NY
Subject:
Historical
Subject:
Biography
Subject:
Women
Subject:
Royalty
Subject:
France
Subject:
Historical - General
Subject:
Kings and rulers
Subject:
Favorites, royal
Subject:
France Court and courtiers.
Subject:
Favorites, Royal - France
Copyright:
2001
Edition Description:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Series Volume:
TPS-00-1
Publication Date:
March 2001
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Pages:
296
Dimensions:
8.01x5.12x.81 in. .72 lbs.
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