Madame De Pompadour - Hardcover

Mitford, Nancy.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060129891 ISBN 13: 9780060129897

Publisher: Hamish, 1968

Synopsis

Physical description: 275 p. ; 19 cm. Subjects: Pompadour, Jeanne Antoinette Poisson marquise de 1721-1764. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General

About this title

About the Author:

Nancy Mitford (1904-1973) was born into the British aristocracy and, by her own account, brought up without an education, except in riding and French. She managed a London bookshop during the Second World War, then moved to Paris, where she began to write her celebrated and successful novels, among them The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate, about the foibles of the English upper class. Mitford was also the author of four biographies: Madame de Pompadour (1954), Voltaire in Love (1957), The Sun King (1966), and Frederick the Great (1970)--all available as NYRB classics. In 1967 Mitford moved from Paris to Versailles, where she lived until her death from Hodgkin's disease.

Amanda Foreman was born in London in 1968 and educated at Sarah Lawrence College, Columbia University, and Oxford University, where she received a Ph.D. in history. She is the author of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, and A World on Fire; her new study, The World Made by Women: A History of Womankind from the Age of Cleopatra to the Era of Hillary Clinton, is forthcoming in 2016.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hamish
• Publication date: 1968
• ISBN 10: 0060129891
• ISBN 13: 9780060129897
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1