num_pages: 336
description: A portrait of Louis XV's famous mistress depicts her as a self-made woman who rose from anonymity in early eighteenth-century Paris to a person of influence in Versailles, describing her training, numerous transformations, marriage, and romance with the king.
language: English
title: Madame De Pompadour: Mistress of France
titlecomplete: Madame De Pompadour: Mistress of France
characters: Louis XV of France, Madame de Pompadour
genres: Historical, France, Biography, Nonfiction, 18th Century, Biography Memoir, Research, History
ratings_count: 575
publisher: Grove Pr