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Dec 29, 2017 · But her full legacy includes more than just being the beautiful and adored mistress of King Louis XV. Here are three important aspects of Enlightenment France that Pompadour helped to shape ...
Apr 11, 2024 · Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, marquise de Pompadour (born Dec. 29, 1721, Paris, France—died April 15, 1764, Versailles) was an influential mistress (from 1745) of the French king Louis XV and a notable patron of literature and the arts.
The art of seduction. Lover to companion. Politics and power. Madame de Pompadour was the long-standing mistress of King Louis XV of France. In this portrait, the last ever painted of her, she is presented as a respectable, cultured, middle-aged woman, who gazes confidently at the viewer.
May 10, 2016 · Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour, may be best known as King Louis XV's chief mistress. But she was also a well-educated tastemaker, a patron of the arts and an artist in her own...
French mistress Madame de Pompadour (1721-1764) came to fame as the paramour of King Louis XV (1710-1774). She was a woman of great beauty, tremendous talent, and enormous influence, despite her humble origins. Often reviled by the court for her bourgeois background, the public for her profligate spending, and sometimes by both for each reason ...
May 12, 2016 · Madame de Pompadour is perhaps most associated with the dramatically upswept hairstyle that bears her name today. The more historically informed might pin her as Louis XV's mistress in the...
Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, marchioness de Pompadour, known as Madame de Pompadour, (born Dec. 29, 1721, Paris, France—died April 15, 1764, Versailles), French mistress of Louis XV. Educated in art and literature, she married Charles-Guillaume Le Normant d’Étoiles in 1741 and became admired by Parisian society and by the king, who installed ...
