Madame de Pompadour was a power to be reckoned with during the reign of her lover, the French king Louis XV. Born Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, she rose through the proverbial ranks at the court of ...

Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour, may be best known as King Louis XV's chief mistress. But she was also a well-educated... More Than A Mistress: Madame De Pompadour Was A Minister Of ...

Many of the portraits of Madame de Pompadour, the mistress of French King Louis XV, by artists like Boucher and A circa 1750 portrait of Madame de Pompadour by Boucher in the collection of the Louvre.

Four gilt-bronze sconces that lit up home of Louis XV’s mistress are set to go on sale at Sotheby’s in December For almost 140 years, four massive gilt-bronze wall lights have hung in the 18th-century ...

AFTER the various balls celebrating the marriage of the Dauphin, Madame d’Étiolcs was frequently observed flitting in and out of the palace. Nobody knew whether she slept there, and if so in which ...

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When Louis XV, King of France, first met the woman who would become his chief mistress, she was dressed as a domino, and he was dressed as a plant. It was 1745, and Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, the ...