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The illegitimate daughter of a financier exiled for fraud, Madame de Pompadour was groomed from childhood to become a plaything for the King. She more than fulfilled her destiny, becoming his acknowledged mistress and one of the most powerful women in 18th-century France. Attractive, educated, and highly intelligent, Pompadour spent several ...
Dec 29, 2017 · Jeanne Antoinette Poisson is better remembered as Madame de Pompadour, the official chief mistress of Louis XV. Her position was a highly political one as well as a sexualized one–a duality many ...
Apr 11, 2024 · In 1744 Louis XV’s young mistress, the duchesse de Châteauroux, died suddenly. She was soon replaced by Madame d’Étioles, who obtained a legal separation from her husband and was created marquise de Pompadour. Nineteenth-century historians thought that Madame de Pompadour had complete ascendancy over Louis XV.
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 mid-1700s.
May 10, 2016 · More Than A Mistress: Madame De Pompadour Was A Minister Of The Arts Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour, may be best known as King Louis XV's chief mistress. But she was also a well ...
Madame de Pompadour. 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 ...
Madame de Pompadour, detail of a portrait by François Boucher; in the National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh. 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 ...
