Title: Madame de Pompadour
First published: 2002
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.
Subjects: Biography, Mistresses, Kings and rulers, Favorites, Royal, History, Relations with women, Royal Favorites, Paramours, Pompadour, jeanne antoinette (poisson) marquis de, 1721-1769, Louis xv, king of france, 1710-1774, Favorites, royal, France, kings and rulers
Places: France
People: Louis XV King of France (1710-1774), Jeanne Antoinette Poisson Pompadour marquise de (1721-1764)
Time periods: Louis XV, 1715-1774
LC classification: DC135.P8 P48 2002