Madame de Pompadour
by:
Nancy Mitford (author)
When Jeanne-Antoinette was nine, she was told by a fortune teller that she would one day become the mistress of the handsome young Louix XV - from that day she was groomed to become 'a morsel fit for a King'. This title tells the story of how the little girl rose to become the most powerful women...
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When Jeanne-Antoinette was nine, she was told by a fortune teller that she would one day become the mistress of the handsome young Louix XV - from that day she was groomed to become 'a morsel fit for a King'. This title tells the story of how the little girl rose to become the most powerful women of the 18th century French court, Le Pompadour.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780099528876 (0099528878)
Publish date: October 6th 2011
Publisher: Vintage Classics
Pages no: 256
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Non Fiction,
Biography,
History,
Reference,
Literature,
Cultural,
Biography Memoir,
France,
Womens,
Research,
European History,
18th Century
Let's get this out here first: if I wanted to bring back one 20th century British person to go to tea and just hang out, it would be Nancy Mitford (sorry, Jessica, you are my go to girl for rallies and being snide about people, I promise). Nancy Mitford's account of the life of Madame de Pompadour i...
My interest was held much more unevenly than the four stars would otherwise indicate, but the good parts were just that good. Mitford makes no attempts to disguise her bias and interest, which makes for an eminently more readable biography than many. She's also far less meticulous with in-line sourc...
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