Christine Pevitt Algrant. modern Y...
Christine Pevitt Algrant. modern York: Grove, 2002. 338 pp $2700 Madame de Pompadour. Evelyne Lever Trans. Catherine Temerson recent York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2002 310 pp $2600 Madame de Pompadour: Image of a Mistress. Colin Jone modern Haven: Yale UP, 2002 76 pp $3500 "Evelyne Lever's 'Madame De Pompadour,' translated from the French by means of Catherine Temerson, and Christine Pevitt Algrant's 'Madame de Pompadour: Mistress of France' are compact, sympathetic lives aimed at an intelligent popular readership. Lever's portrait is more revealing of
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