Eventually connections, luck, and a little scheming pave her way to Versailles and into the Kings arms.Īll too soon, conniving politicians and hopeful beauties seek to replace the bourgeois interloper with a more suitable mistress. As a child, a fortune teller had told young Jeannes destiny: she would become the lover of a king and the most powerful woman in the land. Enter Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, a beautiful girl from the middle classes. The year is 1745 and King Louis XVs bed is once again empty. In this captivating follow-up to Sally Christies clever and absorbing debut, we meet none other than the Marquise de Pompadour, one of the greatest beauties of her generation and the first bourgeois mistress ever to grace the hallowed halls of Versailles. And you thought sisters were a thing to fear.
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