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EMINENCE ROSE.(Brief Article)
Francine du Plessix Gray on Marie-Antoinette
I spent my summer vacation reading four biographies of Mme. de Pompadour in a row. When a subject is ineffably delicious and none too wholesome, l'appetit vient en mangeant, and my appetite for the Marquise increased the more I read. She seems to have had the same effect on her lover, Louis XV, and on her young husband, the royally cuckolded M. d'Etioles. He fainted when he was told that he had lost her, along with his honor and his hopes for an heir. Louis's droit du seigneur was beyond appeal, and the adulteress was madly in love. D'Etioles retired with dignity and consoled himself like a gentleman--with a chorus ...
- Madame de Pompadour
- Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography January 1, 2008 700+ words
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...
- Unchangingly good; Madame de Pompadour.(exhibit of 18th century French art...
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) March 9, 2002 700+ words
An exhibition explores Madame de Pompadour's remarkable patronage of the arts Madame de Pompadour et les Arts is at the Musee...Antoinette Poisson, the future Madame de Pompadour. Not only was this pretty...
- Pompadour, Madame de.(Madame de Pompadour: Mistress of France)(Brief...
- Magazine article from: Biography Lamb, Karen June 22, 2003 700+ words
Madame de Pompadour: Mistress of France. Christine Pevitt...The conviction with which the young de Pompadour clung to the fortune teller's prediction...belief in fate, and the balance of Madame de Pompadour examines the machinations involved...
- Adoring Pompadour: Madame de Pompadour, mistress to Louis XV and style arbiter...
- Magazine article from: Town & Country Rafferty, Jean Bond March 1, 2009 700+ words
...BEAUTIFUL, bright and refined, Madame de Pompadour (1721-64) was wonderfully...French Painting in the Age of Madame de Pompadour" (February 7-May 17...But it is also a discovery of Madame de Pompadour's intellectual patronage...
- Madame de Pompadour: Mistress of France.(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: Biography Thurman, Judith Eakin, Emily March 22, 2003 700+ words
...2002. 338 pp. $27.00. Madame de Pompadour. Evelyne Lever. Trans. Catherine...2002. 310 pp. $26.00. Madame de Pompadour: Image of a Mistress. Colin...00. "Evelyne Lever's 'Madame De Pompadour,' translated from the French...
- Madame de Pompadour. (Report from Europe).
- Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques Kramer, Miriam November 1, 2002 700+ words
...until her death in 1764, Madame de Pompadour was the kings mistress, confidante...view in London are devoted to Madame de Pompadour. The first, on view at the...entitled The Art of Love: Madame de Pompadour and The Wallace Collection...
- Art Lover.(Madame de Pompadour)
- Magazine article from: WWD Harris, Sarah December 27, 2002 700+ words
...exhibitions are celebrating Madame de Pompadour, the mistress and later adviser...women. The first show, "Madame de Pompadour: Images of a Mistress...that easy. CAPTION(S): "Madame de Pompadour standing at her Dressing Table...
- Artful Adultery.(Madame de Pompadour)
- Magazine article from: Newsweek International Pepper, Tara November 11, 2002 700+ words
Did Madame de Pompadour lose the French Empire? In 1756...English cartoonists lampooned Madame de Pompadour mercilessly; one showed the king...try to tease out an answer. "Madame de Pompadour: Images of a Mistress" at the...
