Madame de Pompadour
Publisher: Plume
Published: November 30, 1984
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 1
ISBN-13: 9780525481461
Subjects: General; Biography & Autobiography / General; Biography / Autobiography
First sentence: AFTER THE DEATH of the great King, beautiful Versailles, fatal for France, lay empty seven years while fresh air blew through its golden rooms, blowing away the sorcery and bigotry which hung about the walls like a miasma, blowing away the old century and blowing in the new.