Record details

• ISBN: 0374113084
• ISBN: 9780374113087
• Physical Description: viii, 310 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
• Edition: First American edition
• Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-301) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

1. Death of a Favorite 3 -- 2. Madame d'Etiolles 12 -- 3. A Steady Rise to the Top 22 -- 4. Summer of Fontenoy 36 -- 5. Court 47 -- 6. Debut in "This Country" 58 -- 7. "The Oracle of the Court" 70 -- 8. Theater in the Private Apartments 81 -- 9. Pleasures and Days 91 -- 10. "A Well-Trained Odalisque" 102 -- 11. "Poissonades" 111 -- 12. "The Life I Lead Is Dreadful" 126 -- 13. Shadow of Madame de Maintenon 138 -- 14. 1752: The Year of Living Dangerously 149 -- 15. A Duchess High and Low 159 -- 16. Patroness of the Arts 168 -- 17. Temptation of Politics 180 -- 18. Secret Negotiations 190 -- 19. Arrangements with the Powers on High 200 -- 20. Assassination Attempt 209 -- 21. Giddiness of Power 219 -- 22. A Perpetual Combat 230 -- 23. Bernis's Fall from Grace 239 -- 24. King, the Minister and the Marquise 247 -- 25. "One Moment, Monsieur le Cure" 260.

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Subject:

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 > Paramours > Biography.
France > History > Louis XV, 1715-1774.

Genre:

Biographies.