Madame de Pompadour
by:
Nancy Mitford (author)
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781299572928 (1299572928)
Publish date: January 1st 2012
Publisher: New York Review of Books
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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