'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title. She later claimed that, at the age of nine, she was taken by her mother to a fortune teller and told that she would someday reign over the heart of a king. Madame de Pompadour by Nancy Mitford 1,856 ratings, 3.86 average rating, 180 reviews Open Preview Madame de Pompadour Quotes Showing 1-4 of 4 Madame de Pompadour excelled at an art which the majority of human beings thoroughly despise because it is unprofitable and ephemeral: the art of living.

The greatest expense of her education was the employment of renowned singers and actors, such as Pierre Jélyotte, much of it paid for by Le Normant de Tournehem and it may have been this in particular that sparked rumours of his paternity to Poisson. She became an accomplished actress and singer, and also attended Paris's Club de l'Entresol (formed in 1724 and suppressed in 1731). At adolescence, her mother took personal charge of her education at home by hiring tutors who taught her to recite entire plays by heart, play the clavichord, dance, sing, paint and engrave. She spent her younger childhood at the Ursuline convent in Poissy where she received a good education. Poisson was intelligent, beautiful and refined. Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour, also known as Madame de Pompadour (29 December 1721 - 15 April 1764, was a member of the French court and was the official chief mistress of Louis XV from 1745 to her death. * Lavishly illustrated throughout in color & in b-w w/ many full page plates in full color * Told in the inimitably charming & vivid narrative voice of Nancy Mitford, this fine book offers a classic & perceptive account of the life & rise of Louis XV's mistress, the pretty, intelligent & kindhearted bourgeoise Madame de Pompadour, who w/ her monarch maintained France as the artistic & intellectual center of Europe.Biography. end-papers on heavy stock, pristine interior handsomely printed on excellent semi- gloss-coated paper * 7.64' x 10.25' x 0.96', 1.08 kg, 304 pp.

Very good to near fine hardcover, no jacket, handsome silk-finish British-green linen-over-boards cover w/ slightest fraying at bottom spine-cap & bottom corners & otherwise excellent edges & corners & w/ titles handsomely gold-stamped on spine & Pompadour crest gold-stamped on front panel, excellent smooth-cut text-block exterior w/ top-edge stained pale lavender, excellent sewn binding w/ tight signatures & w/ green & white-checked cloth banding at spine-caps, unblemished illus.