Author: Edmond de GoncourtPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
The Confidantes of a King: Madame de Pompadour
Author: Edmond de GoncourtThe Confidantes of a King
Author: Edmond de GoncourtMadame de Pompadour
Author: Christine PevittPublisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 9780802140357
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
This biography of the legendary mistress of King Louis XV offers dramatic insight into the life of one of the most enchanting, powerful, and feared women to grace the world's stage. Groomed from an early age to assume the role of a rich man's mistress, Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson underwent several transformations before she caught the heart of the king himself. Although accustomed to the king's extramarital relationships, the court was shocked at the sudden ascension of the low-born Mademoiselle Poisson. The newcomer, however, wasted no time in establishing herself as the king's sole confidante and, ultimately, his indispensable partner in affairs of state. The critically acclaimed author of Philippe, Duc d'Orleans, Christine Pevitt Algrant traces Madame de Pompadour from her modest beginnings in early-eighteenth-century Paris to her reign as the undisputed mistress of Versailles. Filled with photographs, and evocative and insightful in its telling, Madame de Pompadour is a seductive portrait of one of the most fascinating and influential women of the age.
The Confidantes of a King: The demoiselles de Nesle
Author: Edmond de GoncourtThe New Larned History for Ready Reference, Reading and Research
Author: Josephus Nelson LarnedPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 992
Book Description
The History and Character of Calvinism
Author: John Thomas McNeillPublisher: New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 976
Book Description
This is a masterful historical portrait of the whole movement of Calvinism for general readers and scholars alike.
Madame de Pompadour
Author: Evelyne LeverPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312310509
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
In this biography, historian Evelyne Lever chronicles the extraordinary life of the most famous and influential mistress of Louis XV: Jeanne-Antoinette de Pompadour - a bourgeois girl of questionable parentage who would rise to the highest ranks of French society and maintain a twenty-year relationship with Louis XV.
Madame de Pompadour
Author: Jean-Louis SoulaviePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Madame de Pompadour
Author: Hugh Noel WilliamsMemoirs of the Courts of Louis XV and XVI. Being Secret Memoirs of Madame Du Hausset, Lady's Maid to Madame De Pompadour and of the Princess Lamballe (Complete)
Author: Mme. Du Hausset and Princesse de Marie Thérèse Louise de Savoie-Carignan LamballePublisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465521399
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 541
Book Description