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- catalog abstract ""This new biography of the legendary mistress of King Louis XV of France offers a dramatic insight into the life of one of the most enchanting, powerful, and feared women to grace the world's stage." "Christine Pevitt Algrant presents a new biography of the most famous of Louis XV's mistresses. From her modest beginnings in early eighteenth-century Paris, to her reign as the undisputed mistress of Versailles, Madame de Pompadour traces the life of a truly remarkable, self-made woman whose astonishing rise confounded the most experienced and the most sophisticated of her contemporaries."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12612413.
- catalog coverage "France History Louis XV, 1715-1774.".
- catalog coverage "France Kings and rulers Mistresses Biography.".
- catalog coverage "France Kings and rulers Paramours Biography.".
- catalog created "c2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "c2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2002.".
- catalog description ""This new biography of the legendary mistress of King Louis XV of France offers a dramatic insight into the life of one of the most enchanting, powerful, and feared women to grace the world's stage." "Christine Pevitt Algrant presents a new biography of the most famous of Louis XV's mistresses. From her modest beginnings in early eighteenth-century Paris, to her reign as the undisputed mistress of Versailles, Madame de Pompadour traces the life of a truly remarkable, self-made woman whose astonishing rise confounded the most experienced and the most sophisticated of her contemporaries."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "1721-1745 "She was born with good sense and a good beart." -- 1745-1751 "Sincere and tender Pompadour." -- 1751-1756 "Louis XV is letting himself be guided by her advice." -- 1756-1759 "The marquise is Prime Minister." -- 1759-1764 "What miseries are attached to ambition."".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [323]-327) and index.".
- catalog extent "xii, 338 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0802117260".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "c2002.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Grove Press,".
- catalog spatial "France History Louis XV, 1715-1774.".
- catalog spatial "France Kings and rulers Mistresses Biography.".
- catalog spatial "France Kings and rulers Paramours Biography.".
- catalog spatial "France".
- catalog subject "944/.034/092 B 1".
- catalog subject "DC135.P8 P48 2002".
- catalog subject "Favorites, Royal France Biography.".
- catalog subject "Louis XV, King of France, 1710-1774 Relations with women.".
- catalog subject "Pompadour, Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, marquise de, 1721-1764.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1721-1745 "She was born with good sense and a good beart." -- 1745-1751 "Sincere and tender Pompadour." -- 1751-1756 "Louis XV is letting himself be guided by her advice." -- 1756-1759 "The marquise is Prime Minister." -- 1759-1764 "What miseries are attached to ambition."".
- catalog title "Madame de Pompadour : mistress of France / Christine Pevitt Algrant.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "text".