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Madame de Pompadour

Nancy Mitford
3.86/5 (1635 ratings)
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When Madame de Pompadour became the mistress of Louis XV, no one expected her to retain his affections for long. A member of the bourgeoisie rather than an aristocrat, she was physically too cold for the carnal Bourbon king, and had so many enemies that she could not travel publicly without risking a pelting of mud and stones. History has loved her little better.
Nancy Mitford's delightfully candid biography recreates the spirit of 18th-century Versailles with its love of pleasure and treachery. We learn and see France increasingly overcome with class conflict. With a fiction writer's felicity, Mitford restores the royal mistress and celebrates her as a survivor, unsurpassed in "the art of living," who reigned as the most powerful woman in France for nearly twenty years
Format:
Pages:
312 pages
Publication:
Publisher:
Edition:
1st THUS, First Edition. states
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
094032265X
ISBN13:
9780940322653
kindle Asin:
B005UF5KI2

Madame de Pompadour

Nancy Mitford
3.86/5 (1635 ratings)
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When Madame de Pompadour became the mistress of Louis XV, no one expected her to retain his affections for long. A member of the bourgeoisie rather than an aristocrat, she was physically too cold for the carnal Bourbon king, and had so many enemies that she could not travel publicly without risking a pelting of mud and stones. History has loved her little better.
Nancy Mitford's delightfully candid biography recreates the spirit of 18th-century Versailles with its love of pleasure and treachery. We learn and see France increasingly overcome with class conflict. With a fiction writer's felicity, Mitford restores the royal mistress and celebrates her as a survivor, unsurpassed in "the art of living," who reigned as the most powerful woman in France for nearly twenty years
Format:
Pages:
312 pages
Publication:
Publisher:
Edition:
1st THUS, First Edition. states
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
094032265X
ISBN13:
9780940322653
kindle Asin:
B005UF5KI2

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