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Madame de Pompadour : mistress of France / Christine Pevitt Algrant.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pevitt, Christine.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pompadour, Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, marquise de, 1721-1764.
- Pompadour, Jeanne Antoinette Poisson.
- Louis XV, King of France, 1710-1774--Relations with women.
- Louis.
- Louis XV, King of France, 1710-1774.
- Favorites, Royal--France--Biography.
- Favorites, Royal.
- Relations with women.
- France.
- France--Kings and rulers--Paramours--Biography.
- Kings and rulers.
- Paramours.
- France--History--Louis XV, 1715-1774.
- History.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 338 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Grove Press, [2002]
- Summary:
- The critically acclaimed author of "Philippe, duc d'Orleans" presents a stunning new biography of the most famous of Louis XV's mistresses. From her beginnings amid anonymity in early-18th-century Paris, to her reign as the undisputed mistress of Versailles, "Madame de Pompadour" traces the life of a truly remarkable, self-made woman. of full-color illustrations.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [323]-327) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0802117260
- OCLC:
- 49525787
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