Madame De Pompadour

Name: Madame De Pompadour
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ISBN: 9780140011814

ISBN-10: 0140011811

ISBN-13: 9780140011814

Edition: N/A

Authors: Nancy Mitford

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When Madame de Pompadour became the mistress of Louis XV, no one expected her to retain his affections for long. A member of the bourgeoisie rather than an aristocrat, she was physically too cold for the carnal Bourbon king, and had so many enemies that she could not travel publicly without risking a pelting of mud and stones. History has loved her little better. Nancy Mitford's delightfully candid biography re-creates the spirit of eighteenth-century Versailles with its love of pleasure and treachery. We learn that the Queen was a "bore," the Dauphin a "prig," and see France increasingly overcome with class conflict. With a fiction writer's felicity, Mitford restores the royal mistress and…

Book details

List price: $16.50
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Pages: 288
Size: 4.16" wide x 6.69" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.220