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Memoirs of the Marchioness of Pompadour (Complete)

By: Jeanne Antoinette Poisson Pompadour

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Memoirs of the Marchioness of Pompadour (Complete)

By: Jeanne Antoinette Poisson Pompadour

THE following work must be acknowledged highly interesting to these times; and to posterity will be still more so. These are not the memoirs of a mere woman of pleasure, who has spent her life in a voluptuous court, but the history of a reign remarkable for revolutions, wars, intrigues, alliances, negotiations; the very blunders of which are not beneath the regard of politicians, as having greatly contributed to give a new turn to the affairs of Europe. The Lady who drew the picture was known to be an admirable colourist. They who were personally acquainted with Mademoiselle Poisson, before and since her marriage with M. le Normand, know her to have been possessed of a great deal of that wit, which, with proper culture, improves into genius. The King called her to court at a tempestuous season of life, when the passions reign uncontrouled, and by corrupting the heart, enlarge the understanding. They who are near the persons of Kings, for the most part, surpass the common run of mankind, both in natural and acquired talents; for ambition is ever attended with a sort of capacity to compass its ends; and all courtiers are ambitious. No sooner does the Sovereign take a mistress, than the courtiers flock about her. Their first concern is to give her her cue; for as they intend to avail themselves of her interest with the King, she must be made acquainted with a multitude of things: she may be said to receive her intelligence from the first hand, and to draw her knowledge at the fountain head. Lewis XV. intrusted the Marchioness de Pompadour with the greatest concerns of the nation; so that if she had been without those abilities which distinguished her at Paris, she must still have improved in the school of Versailles. Her talents did not clear her in the public eye; never was a favourite more outrageously pelted with pamphlets, or exposed to more clamorous invectives. Of this her Memoirs are a full demonstration; her enemies charged her with many very odious vices, without so much as allowing her one good quality. The grand subject of murmur was the bad state of the finances, which they attributed to her amours with the King.

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Memoirs of the Marchioness of Pompadour (Complete)

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Memoirs of the Marchioness of Pompadour (Vol. 1 of 2)

By: Jeanne Antoinette Poisson Pompadour

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Memoirs of the Marchioness of Pompadour (Vol. 1 of 2)

By: Jeanne Antoinette Poisson Pompadour

Wherein are Displayed The Motives of the Wars, Treaties of Peace, Embassies, and Negotiations, in the several Courts of Europe: The Cabals and Intrigues of Courtiers; the Characters of Generals, and Ministers of State, with the Causes of their Rise and Fall; and, in general, the most remarkable Occurrences at the Court of France, during the last twenty Years of the Reign of Lewis XV. The first of two volumes, published in this English translation from the original French in 1766.

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MEMOIRS OF THE MARCHIONESS OF

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Memoirs of the Marchioness of Pompadour (Complete)

Memoirs of the Marchioness of Pompadour (Complete)

Memoirs of the Marchioness of Pompadour (Complete)

Memoirs of the Marchioness of Pompadour (Complete)

Memoirs of the Marchioness of Pompadour (Vol. 1 of 2)

Memoirs of the Marchioness of Pompadour (Vol. 1 of 2)

MEMOIRS OF THE MARCHIONESS OF

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