AFTER the various balls celebrating the marriage of the Dauphin, Madame d’Étiolcs was frequently observed flitting in and out of the palace. Nobody knew whether she slept there, and if so in which ...

When Louis XV, King of France, first met the woman who would become his chief mistress, she was dressed as a domino, and he was dressed as a plant. It was 1745, and Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, the ...

Madame de Pompadour was a power to be reckoned with during the reign of her lover, the French king Louis XV. Born Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, she rose through the proverbial ranks at the court of ...

Dancing cupids, breathtaking landscapes, brawny laundrywomen, Europa's dramatic abduction and the gods of the arts urging to save the life of a dying patroness. Such is the staggering, far out ...

We hope you enjoy this article from The Times Literary Supplement, free to subscribers of The Wall Street Journal. Louis XV’s mistress, Madame de Pompadour, has generally been badly served by her ...

View of the Women’s March on Washington from the roof of the Voice of America building in Washington, D.C. (image via Wikimedia) Visitors to the official website of the Pussyhat Project are welcomed ...

Once again Chicago Folks Operetta has taken a Fall – that’s Leo Fall – on behalf of an unjustly neglected Viennese operetta from the early years of the 20th century. With their currently running ...

MANCY MITFORD has lived happily in the heart of Paris sitter the war. The first novel she wrote there was Love in a Cold Climate; her next, The Blessing, was a Book-of-the-Month Club selection in 1951 ...

Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour, may be best known as King Louis XV's chief mistress. But she was also a well-educated... More Than A Mistress: Madame De Pompadour Was A Minister Of ...