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This compelling new biography of the legendary mistress of King Louis XV of France offers a dramatic insight into the life of one of the most enchanting, powerful, and feared women to grace the world's stage. The critically acclaimed author of Philippe, duc d'Orleans, Christine Pevitt Algrant presents a new biography of the most famous of Louis XV's mistresses. From her modest beginnings in early-eighteenth-century Paris, to her reign as the undisputed mistress of Versailles, Madame de Pompadour traces the life of a truly remarkable, self-made woman whose astonishing rise confounded the most experienced and the most sophisticated of her contemporaries. <p>Algrant weaves her richly textured manuscript with tremendous authority, setting the dramatic events that marked Madame de Pompadour's life against the defining moments of the times. Groomed from an early age to assume the role of a rich man's mistress, Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson underwent a number of transformations -- from a halfhearted marriage to a Parisian tax collector to a lifelong involvement with the financial elite of France -- before she captivated the king himself and was officially recognized as his maitresse declaree.

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Author

CHRISTINE PEVITT ALGRANT

Publisher

Grove Press; Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated

Published

2002

Language

EN

ISBN

9780802140357

Category

history

Subjects

Memoir, Fiction, Historical Fiction