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Madame de Pompadour. Nancy Mitford, Amanda Foreman (Introduction) 3.86. 1,960 ratings197 reviews. When Madame de Pompadour became the mistress of Louis XV, no one expected her to retain his affections for long.
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In 1953 Nancy Mitford published her first historical work, Madame de Pompadour, the life of one of Louis XV's most famous mistresses.
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Mar 12, 2001 · A dazzling double portrait of Louis XIV and Versailles, the opulent court from which he ruled. Mitford’s account of Voltaire’s fifteen-year relationship with the Marquise due Châtelet—the mathematician who introduced Isaac Newton’s revolutionary new physics to France—is a delicious, spirited romp.
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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.
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May 9, 2012 · 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. Read more. Print length.
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Oct 6, 2011 · Nancy Mitford lovingly tells the story of how the little girl rose, against a backdrop of savage social-climbing, intrigue, excess and high drama, to become the most powerful women of the...
Mar 31, 2001 · Madame de Pompadour. Nancy Mitford. New York Review Books, Mar 31, 2001 - Biography & Autobiography - 296 pages. When Madame de Pompadour became the mistress of Louis XV, no one...
