2000, ISBN: 0750923385

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[EAN: 9780750923385], Near Fine, [PU: Sutton Publishing, Stroud, Gloucestershire], HISTORY; FIRST EDITIONS; MARGARET CROSLAND; FRENCH MADAME DE POMPADOUR, History|Europe|France|Renaissanc… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780750923385], Near Fine, [PU: Sutton Publishing, Stroud, Gloucestershire], HISTORY; FIRST EDITIONS; MARGARET CROSLAND; FRENCH MADAME DE POMPADOUR, History|Europe|France|Renaissance and Ancien Régime (1501-1789), Jacket, First impression of the true first edition. Jacket painting: Madame de Pompadour, c. 1758, by Francois Boucher (National Gallery of Scotland). ***Near fine in dark blue cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to spine. With eight pages of illustrations. No inscriptions. Printed on thick quality paper. Pages clean and bright. Spine tight. ***In a near fine colour-illustrated dustwrapper that has not been price-clipped, showing original publisher's price of £19.99. Tiny scuff to head of spine of dustwrapper. No fading. Dustwrapper clean and bright. ***242 mm x162 mm. 186 pages including notes on sources, select bibliography and appendices and index to the rear. ***'In 1730 nine-year-old Jeanne-Antoinette de La Mote was taken to see a fortune-teller: the child, prophesied Madame Lebon, would become mistress to the king. It was an extraordinary suggestion for the daughter of a femme galante with a doubtful reputation but the child became Madame de Pompadour, lover of Louis XV, and for nearly twenty years her life was dedicated solely to serving the king. ***Madame de Pompadour was born in 1721. Though beautiful and vivacious, with her father exiled in disgrace after the fall of the Regent, her outlook seemed unpromising. But Le Normant de Torunehem, a successful 'friend' of her mother, saw her potential, and arranged for her to become cultured and educated in the ways of society. Soon she was welcome at the salons of the famous. Then, reputedly at a ball, she met the king. Within months she was installed at Versailles. ***Though now Maitresse en titre, Pompadour was shrewd enough to understand that there were many only too willing to step into her place, and others who still despised her. Quickly, she taught herself not only to serve the king's wishes, but to survive the intricacies of court life. She established the Theatre des Petits Cabinets, with herself in the leading roles, acquired country houses - at Crecy and elsewhere - where she and the king could enjoy a more informal life, and became an important patron of the arts, commissioning paintings by Boucher and many other artists and promoting the work of the Sevres porcelain factory. In matters of state too she was all-important. She used her influence to promote or destroy careers of ministers. She was instrumental in the founding of the Ecole Militaire, and attempted to direct the course of France's involvement in the Seven Years War. ***Such extravagance and power also brought criticism. Yet, although she was eventually replaced as mistress, the king remained fond of her and when she died at Versailles, in 1764, she was buried with the honours of a duchess, eighteen horsemen escorting the hearse which was drawn by twelve horses caparisoned in silver. As the cortege passed him, Louis is said to have wept. ***This engagingly written biography of Madame de Pompadour, the first in English for over thirty years, vividly recreates the life of one of the most enigmatic and powerful women of her time. Set against a background of the politics and culture of pre-Revolutionary France, it reveals both the limitations and the extent of status and power open to women in the eighteenth century Europe.' ***'Margaret Crosland has been a freelance writer and translator since the 1950s. She has written several previous books, the most recent of which are Simone de Beauvoir (Heinemann, 1992) which won the Enid MacLeod Literary Prize, and The Enigma of Giorgio de Chirico (Peter Owen, 1999). Her earlier biography of Colette won the Prix Bourgogne. She lives in Sussex.' (Quote from inside front and rear flaps of dustwrapper blurb). ***First impression of the true first edition in its original dustwrapper, in extremely nice, bright clean condition. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc., Books<

2001, ISBN: 0750923385

[EAN: 9780750923385], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [SC: 4.08], [PU: Sutton Pub Ltd], CROSLAND MARGARET MADAME DE POMPADOUR SEX CULTURE AND THE POWER GAME, The book has been read, but is… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780750923385], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [SC: 4.08], [PU: Sutton Pub Ltd], CROSLAND MARGARET MADAME DE POMPADOUR SEX CULTURE AND THE POWER GAME, The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged., Books<

ISBN: 9780750923385

Hardback. Very Good., 3