Synopses & Reviews
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. Though she would never have recognized herself as a feminist, she was one of its earliest exponents -- using the only means of power available to her: sex. No life reveals more closely than hers the extent and the limitations of women's status and power in the eighteenth century.
Synopsis
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.