Madame de Pompadour
Subtitle: mistress of France
By: Christine Pevitt Algrant.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Grove Press; Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 338
Subjects: Pompadour, Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, marquise de, 1721-1764.; Louis XV, King of France, 1710-1774 -- Relations with women.; Favorites, Royal -- France -- Biography.; France -- Kings and rulers -- Mistresses -- Biography.; France -- History -- Louis XV, 1715-1774.
Genres: Biography.
Description: "This new biography of the legendary mistress of King Louis XV of France offers a dramatic insight into the life of one of the most enchanting, powerful, and feared women to grace the world's stage.".

"Christine Pevitt Algrant presents a new biography of the most famous of Louis XV's mistresses. From her modest beginnings in early eighteenth-century Paris, to her reign as the undisputed mistress of Versailles, Madame de Pompadour traces the life of a truly remarkable, self-made woman whose astonishing rise confounded the most experienced and the most sophisticated of her contemporaries."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [323]-327) and index.