![]() Madame de Pompadour by Mitford, Nancy, 1904-1973. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Madame de Pompadour Bookreader Item Preview. 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. In 1967 Mitford moved from Paris to Versailles, where she lived until her death from Hodgkin’s disease. 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. 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. ![]() 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. ![]()
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