Madame de Pompadour: A Life by Catherine Temerson, Évelyne Lever

Madame de Pompadour: A Life

Catherine Temerson, Évelyne Lever

310 pages first pub 2000 (editions)

nonfiction biography history informative slow-paced

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A sumptuous new biography of one of the most famous dangerous liaisons When Jeanne Antoinette Poisson was a child, a fortune-teller predicted that she would one day be the mistress of a king. Born into the financial bourgeoisie that was a world ap...

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