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Algrant looks at the influence of this favourite of the king on the artistic and political spectrum of the day, examining her relationships with the leaders of the French Enlightenment: Voltaire, Rousseau, and Diderot.
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"Christine Pevitt Algrant dishes up salacious court gossip as she gets inside her subject's well-coiffed head."
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Christine Pevitt Algrant was born in Lancashire and studied classics at Cambridge University. She has worked as a television reporter and publisher in London and New York, and now writes on the history of 18th-century France. Her previous book, Philippe, duc d’Orleans was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year.
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- PublisherFlamingo / Fontana Paperbacks
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 0732276799
- ISBN 13 9780732276799
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Madame De Pompadour: Mistress of France
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Reprinted. xii+339pp. Pictorial colour illustrated covers and spine, b/w portrait of author on ffep., col. plts. & text ills., notes, bibliog., index. Born Jeanne- Antoinette Poisson, Madame de Pompadour was mistress of King Louis XV during the turbulent decades of the eighteenth century leading up to the French Revolution. Christine Pevitt Algrant paints a brilliant, compelling portrait of a shrewd and complex woman who came to wield extraordinary power. Size: Octavo. Book. Seller Inventory # 000586
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