Madame de Pompadour: A Life by Évelyne Lever

Madame de Pompadour: A Life

Évelyne Lever with Catherine Temerson (Translator)

320 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction autobiography biography historical informative slow-paced

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A sumptuous new biography of one of the most famous dangerous liaisonsWhen 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 apa...

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