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	Madame de Pompadour - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Madame de Pompadour, (1721 – April 15, 1764) was a well known courtesan and the famous mistress of King Louis XV of France.
		Madame de Pompadour was born Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson in 1721 in Paris.
		Pompadour suffered two miscarriages in the 1750s, and she is said to have arranged lesser mistresses for the king's pleasure to replace herself.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Madame_de_Pompadour (950 words)

	Madame de Pompadour
		Madame de Pompadour is one female whose contributions and authority in France have distinguished her as a historical figure.
		Madame de Pompadour, the mistress and friend of the king, is briefly identified but sheds little detail on her role in history.
		Madame de Pompadour is described as having an important role in foreign affairs, like the negotiations that led up to the reversal of alliances in 1756.
	departments.kings.edu /womens_history/pompadour.html (1904 words)

	Amazon.ca: Madame de Pompadour: Sex, Culture and Power: Books: Margaret Crosland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		According to legend, the career of Madame de Pompadour (n?e Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, 1721-1764) as mistress to King Louis XV of France was predicted by a fortune-teller when she was only a girl.
		Additionally, Pompadour, much to the chagrin of her male enemies at court, served as a diplomatic adviser to the king and, as a result, was blamed for military defeats during the Seven Years' War.
		This innovative biography is strengthened by the characterization of the divine Madame de Pompadour in terms of the sociological and cultural context of both her era and her distinct social station.
	www.amazon.ca /Madame-Pompadour-Sex-Culture-Power/dp/0750923385 (813 words)

	Madame de Pompadour
		Madame de Pompadour was born Jeanne-Antionette Poisson on December 29, 1721 in the rue de Clery.
		The Marquise de Pompadour, who had put all of her energy towards the affairs of the state, was physically fatigued and became quite ill. She died on April 15, 1764.
		On December 30, 1721 Jean-Antoinette Poisson, the future Marquise de Pompadour was born to Louise Madeleine de la Motte and Francois Poisson of the bourgeois class.
	departments.kings.edu /womens_history/pompadou.html (3583 words)

	Wikinfo \| Madame de Pompadour (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Madame de Pompadour (December 29, 1721 - April 15, 1764) was the famous mistress of King Louis XV of France.
		Madame de Pompadour was an accomplished woman, who had a keen interest in literature.
		Pompadour suffered two miscarriages in 1740s and later in life arranged lesser mistresses for the king's pleasure.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Madame_de_Pompadour (449 words)

	Madame de Pompadour (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Madame de Pompadour's brother was appointed director of the King's buildings and he, the King, and Mme Pompadour planned and built a number of costly palaces, pavilions and summer houses.
		Madame de Pompadour would have liked to patronize literature by providing pensions for many of the talented writers whom she knew from the Paris salons.
		It was at the urging of Madame de Pompadour that the King appointed Voltaire royal historiographer in April 1745, with a salary of two thousand livres per year.
	www.visitvoltaire.com /v_pompadour.htm (483 words)

	Madame de Pompadour
		Louis XV s'ennuie et madame de Pompadour sait le distraire, organisant des soupers, des fêtes, des spectacles, entretenant son goût pour les bâtiments et les jardins, notamment au Petit Trianon.
		Après la mort de madame de Pompadour, il y logera sa nouvelle maîtresse, madame du Barry.
		Madame de Pompadour entretient de bonnes relations avec la Famille royale ; elle traite avec respect la Reine, grande souveraine par sa dignité et par sa bonté.
	www.chateauversailles.fr /fr/230_Madame_de_Pompadour.php (456 words)

	madame de Pompadour
		Madame de Pompadour managed to entertain a bored Louis XV by organizing suppers, festivities, and shows, and by stimulating his interest in buildings and gardens, notably the Petit Trianon.
		Madame de Pompadour remained on good terms with the royal family and displayed respect for the queen, whose dignity and benevolence made her a great queen.
		Before becoming chief architect to Louis XV and friend of Madame de Pompadour, Ange-Jacques Gabriel (1698-1782) trained at Versailles in the school of Hardouin-Mansart, where he learned the monumentality and sobriety that led naturally to his mature style based on the forms and elements of ancient architecture.
	www.chateauversailles.fr /en/230_madame_de_Pompadour.php (539 words)

	Amazon.com: Madame de Pompadour (New York Review Books Classics): Books: Nancy Mitford,Amanda Foreman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		"Madame de Pompadour" is especially rich is limning the life of this great horizontal, with all its struggles, sorrows and triumphs (she was lovely, with elegant taste, a delightful companion, but sadly frigid).
		Pompadour, beautiful, charming, erudite and influential was the favorite of Louis XV for many years, and was loved and hated with equal intensity by his court.
		Reading her biography of Madame la Marquise de Pompadour (Mitford is strong on the use of proper aristocratic titles) one is not certain where Nancy's life ends and la Pompadour's life begins.
	www.amazon.com /Madame-Pompadour-Review-Books-Classics/dp/094032265X (1624 words)

	Marie Antoinette wigs for Bastille Day themes.
		Madame de Pompadour Wigs and costume accessories to celebrate the new age of the pyramids.
		Madame de Pompadour Wigs are instrumental when costuming for this Eygyptian theme.
		As empires fell, Madame de Pompadour and her hairstyle lived on as the queen of mystery and attraction.
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	Amazon.com: Madame de Pompadour: Mistress of France: Books: Christine Pevitt Algrant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		While previous biographies, such as Margaret Crosland's Madame de Pompadour: Sex, Culture, and Power, have focused on the cultural and sociological aspects of her era, Algrant brings her to life in an engaging study that will appeal to the general reader as well as the specialist.
		Madame Pompadour broke through an enormous social barrier for women of society - she was the first of the bourgeoisie to be appointed "official mistress" to a French King.
		Pompadour's real talent - and greatest legacy - was her patronage of arts and literature, most notably Boucher and Voltaire, but also the fine arts such as the porcelain works as Sevres.
	www.amazon.com /Madame-Pompadour-Christine-Pevitt-Algrant/dp/0802140351 (2125 words)

	The Women's Review of Books: A feminist guide to good reading
		MADAME DE POMPADOUR (née Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson in 1721), the mistress of Louis XV from 1745 to 1764, materialized in the public eye last year abruptly but emphatically.
		"Madame de Pompadour and the Arts" was squeezed into a small, windowless, ground-floor apartment: if it were possible to banish the splendor of the palace from any part of it, it would be here.
		From Goodman we get details about Pompadour's education, what she read, that she was a serious musician, that drawing was a life-long love and that in most of the many portraits of her she is depicted as a femme savante, a learned woman.
	www.wellesley.edu /WomensReview/archive/2003/03/highlt.html (5912 words)

	Madame de Pompadour by DROUAIS, François-Hubert (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		This sumptuous portrait of Madame de Pompadour, Louis XV's mistress, similarly employs the imagery of bourgeois virtue and industry to flatter a great lady.
		In this case, however, the fiction is less pronounced: the Marquise de Pompadour had been born plain Mademoiselle Poisson.
		Her embroidery - more accurately, tambouring - wools are kept in an elaborate work-table in the latest fashion, with Sèvres plaques (Madame de Pompadour had earlier taken the porcelain factory of Vincennes under her protection and transferred it to Sèvres, near one of her houses).
	gallery.euroweb.hu /html/d/drouais/mme_pomp.html (497 words)

	Seeley's Madame Pompadour - Dresser Jar Mold (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Madame Pompadour is dressed in her green gown.
		Haughty Madame Pompadour's gown, is 18th century in style.
		The bottom of the oval-shaped container is stamped in red with "Madame Pompadour, Dresser Dolls, E. Phila." The E.R. stands for the Ebeling and Reuss Co. of Germany.
	www.seeleys.com /Detail.bok?no=14229 (140 words)

	LOUIS XV and MADAME POMPADOUR
		Her elaborate ball gown of teal trimmed in pink is heavily adorned with 22k gold and tiny pink roses.
		MADAME POMPADOUR is holding a feathered fan in her right hand.
		LOUIS XV & MADAME POMPADOUR are a pair of the utmost distinction and quality.
	www.antiqnet.com /detail,louis-xv-madame,143668.html (191 words)

	Madame De Pompadour - Nancy Mitford - Penguin UK
		This enjoyable biography explores the life of Madame de Pompadour, most famously claimed by Louis XV who installed her as his mistress at Versailles and remained devoted to her until her death at the age of forty, in 1764.
		Beautiful, witty and accomplished, Madame de Pompadour was a talented actress, an enthusiastic gardener and botanist, and a discerning patron of the arts who herself excelled in the arts of living.
		Nancy Mitford's now classic biography is crammed with anecdotes, court gossip and sketches from the life of a remarkable woman, and enriched with comments from the leading writers and diarists of the day.
	www.penguin.co.uk /nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,0_9780140011814,00.html (159 words)

	Madame de Pompadour: Mistress of Louis XV quiz -- free game
		At the age of nine a fortune teller told the the young (and untitled) Madame de Pompadour that one day she would be the king's mistress.
		Eventually the sexual relationship of Louis XV and Madame de Pompadour stopped.
		Madame de Pompadour became so influential that foreign diplomats often put their requests to her instead of using the regular channels.
	www.funtrivia.com /playquiz.cfm?qid=188886 (191 words)

	Voltaire Residence / Residence of Voltaire
		Located in the Haute-Marne district about 250 km from Paris, the Chateau de Cirey was marked by the presence of Voltaire who lived there for 15 years from 1734 to 1749.
		Voltaire was the guest of Gabrielle Emilie de Breteuil, Marquise du Chatelet, another great intellect of the 18th century.
		Voltaire was forced to flee Paris and take refuge at Cirey in 1734 after the publication of "Philosophic Letters" also know as "The English Letters".
	www.visitvoltaire.com (533 words)

	Madame de Pompadour
		Maurice de Saxe, marshall of France and uncle of the Dauphin.
		The main personages of the entourage of Madame of Pompadour
		It is even reported that Jean Paris de Montmartel was the real father of the Marchioness, while someone said that it was Lenormant de Tourneheim instead...
	www.madamedepompadour.com /_eng_pomp/galleria/entour/entour1.htm (323 words)

	Madame de Pompadour Ink Box
		La Marquise de Pompadour was pretty, bright and pert.
		As such she became a patron of the arts, to the extent that her favorite color became known as 'Pompadour' in France.
		During times of estrangement she lived in her Chateau de Versailles, spending days writing belles lettres to the beau-monde back in Paris.
	tradingstories.com /minliminkbox.html (137 words)

	POMPADOUR, Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson
		Als erste Bürgerliche in der Geschichte des Landes zog sie in Versailles als »Maitresse en titre« ein, eine Rolle, die sie fast zwanzig Jahre lang spielen sollte, obgleich das sexuelle Verhältnis zum König nur sechs Jahre andauerte.
		Auch die Erhebung zur Duchesse de Ménars, 1756, und zur Ehrendame der als sehr fromm geltenden Königin vermochten nicht zu verhindern, daß der jesuitische Beichtvater Ludwigs XV.
		de Goncourt, Madame de P., Paris 1860, 1881, 1888, 1927 u.
	www.bautz.de /bbkl/p/pompadour.shtml (848 words)

	Kunsthalle München der Hypo-Kulturstiftung: "Madame de Pompadour" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Her own artistic activities as pupil of François Boucher's are also documented in drawings and designs in the style of her art master's works.
		A further aim of this exhibition, organized in conjunction with the castle of Versailles and the National Gallery in London, is to give a glimpse of the appartments and castles which Pompadour furnished and lived in.
		Thanks to her intelligence and spirit, she was an inspirational companion not only to Louis XV, but also to Voltaire, and became the focus of intellectual life in France.
	www.hypo-kunsthalle.de /newweb/epompadour.html (185 words)

	The Straight Dope: Were champagne glasses modeled on the breasts of Madame de Pompadour?
		His father has always maintained that the original saucers were modeled on the breasts of Diane de Poitiers (1499-1566), the mistress of Henry II.
		She commissioned the glassblower at their Chateau d'Anet to make them as a present to Henry, who was particularly enamored of her breasts and harbored a fantasy to drink wine from them.
		A writer by the name of Maurice des Ombiaux bestows the honor on no less a personage than Helen of Troy.
	www.straightdope.com /classics/a2_151.html (395 words)

	The Guide to Operetta - Madame Pompadour - Leo Fall
		MARIETTE (Maid to Madame Pompadour) - ELSIE RANDOLPH.
		SEXTET - (Pompadour, Mariette, Madeleine and Three Maids) - "Tell me what your eyes were made for"
		SERENADE - (René and Chorus of Soldiers) - "Madame Pompadour"
	www.musicaltheatreguide.com /composers/fall/madamepompadour.htm (258 words)

	BBC - Radio 4 - Woman's Hour -Madame de Pompadour
		BBC - Radio 4 - Woman's Hour -Madame de Pompadour
		Madame de Pompadour was not only the powerful mistress of Louis XV but also a dedicated patron of the arts, employing the best painters in France to project images of her as both strong and feminine.
		Jo Hedley a curator of the Art of Love exhibition at The Wallace Collection joins Martha, along with writer Christine Pevit Algrant to talk about the legacy of Madame de Pompadour and the Art of Love.
	www.bbc.co.uk /radio4/womanshour/2002_42_fri_05.shtml (135 words)

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	Madame Bergeret (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Engravings like his, often with verses added, spread the rococo style across Europe.
		Boucher himself became the most fashionable artist in France under the patronage of Madame de Pompadour, Louis XV's powerful mistress, whose refined tastes influenced French art for two decades.
		It may have been either the husband or the brother of the woman in this painting who introduced the young artist to his future patron.
	www.nga.gov /collection/gallery/gg54/gg54-32697.0.html (202 words)

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