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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.
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...
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...
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 ...
Dec 22, 2016 · Madame de Pompadour’s charm and wit gained her far more friends than enemies. Even the Queen, who had been avoided by previous mistresses, deeply appreciated the respect and deference shown to her by Jeanne-Antoinette, and openly acknowledged the considerable efforts she exerted to amuse the King.
Jun 17, 2019 · Stories. Madame de Pompadour: Rococo style icon. Posted 17 Jun 2019, by Chloe Esslemont. In 1730, a fortune teller by the name of Madame de Lebon received a visit from a little girl and her mother. Lebon went on to tell this nine-year-old girl that one day, she would reign over the heart of a king.
