Madame de Pompadour

When Jeanne-Antoinette was nine, she was told by a fortune teller that she would one day become the mistress of the handsome young Louix XV - from that day she was groomed to become 'a morsel fit for a King'. When Jeanne-Antoinette was nine, she was told by a fortune teller that she would one day become the mistress of the handsome young Louix XV - from that day she was groomed to become ''a morsel fit for a King''. Nancy Mitford lovingly tells the story of how the little girl rose, against a backdrop of savage social-climbing, intrigue, excess and high drama, to become the most powerful women of the eighteenth century French court, Le Pompadour.

• | Author: Nancy Mitford
• | Publisher: Vintage Publishing
• | Publication Date: Oct 06, 2011
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9780099528876
• | ISBN-10: 0099528878