Madame de Pompadour: Mistress of Fr...
Madame de Pompadour: Mistress of France. Christine Pevitt Algrant. Sydney: HarperCollins, 2002 352 pp $AUS29.95. "The conviction with which the young de Pompadour clung to the fortune teller's prediction [that she would become the king's mistress] required a belief in self that outdoed a belief in fate, and the
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