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Book Reviews of Madame de Pompadour: A Life

Madame de Pompadour: A Life
Madame de Pompadour A Life
Author: Evelyne Lever
ISBN-13: 9780374113087
ISBN-10: 0374113084
Publication Date: 10/2/2002
Pages: 320
Rating:
  • Currently 3.5/5 Stars.
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3.5 stars, based on 2 ratings
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Book Type: Hardcover
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BethG avatar reviewed Madame de Pompadour: A Life on + 108 more book reviews
I got this book because I recently read that Pompadours taste was still very influential in France. That intrigued me and sent me looking for this book.

She was a great beauty who became Louis XV's mistress at 24 and never lost her place. She had enormous influence and used it. She was blamed for many things that she did not have anything to do with, and truly hated by the common people. In her later years she just about ran France and she was, Im sorry to say, a disaster.

This book is translated from the French and sometimes that was a little too obvious. It assumes that the reader will know things that I certainly did not. I also thought it was amazing that the death of Pompadours only child was reported in a dependent clause. Still, an interesting book on an interesting life.
reviewed Madame de Pompadour: A Life on + 76 more book reviews
Interesting book. I have to say it reads more like a history book instead of a novel. My only complaint was that I was not as familiar of that era as I would like to be and so the mention of certain people in the book blended all together.