{"product_id":"madame-de-pompadour-paperback","title":"Madame de Pompadour - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNancy Mitford\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eAmanda Foreman\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Madame de Pompadour became the mistress of Louis XV, no one expected her to retain his affections for long. A member of the bourgeoisie rather than an aristocrat, she was physically too cold for the carnal Bourbon king, and had so many enemies that she could not travel publicly without risking a pelting of mud and stones. History has loved her little better.Nancy Mitford's delightfully candid biography re-creates the spirit of eighteenth-century Versailles with its love of pleasure and treachery. We learn that the Queen was a \"bore,\" the Dauphin a \"prig,\" and see France increasingly overcome with class conflict. With a fiction writer's felicity, Mitford restores the royal mistress and celebrates her as a survivor, unsurpassed in \"the art of living,\" who reigned as the most powerful woman in France for nearly twenty years.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eNancy Mitford (1904-1973) was born into the British aristocracy and, by her own account, brought up without an education, except in riding and French. She managed a London bookshop during the Second World War, then moved to Paris, where she began to write her celebrated and successful novels, among them \u003ci\u003eThe Pursuit of Love\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLove in a Cold Climate\u003c\/i\u003e, about the foibles of the English upper class. Mitford was also the author of four biographies: \u003ci\u003eMadame de Pompadour\u003c\/i\u003e (1954), \u003ci\u003eVoltaire in Love\u003c\/i\u003e (1957), \u003ci\u003eThe Sun King\u003c\/i\u003e (1966), and \u003ci\u003eFrederick the Great\u003c\/i\u003e (1970)--all available as NYRB classics. In 1967 Mitford moved from Paris to Versailles, where she lived until her death from Hodgkin's disease. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAmanda Foreman was born in London in 1968 and educated at Sarah Lawrence College, Columbia University, and Oxford University, where she received a Ph.D. in history. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eGeorgiana, Duchess of Devonshire\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eA World on Fire\u003c\/i\u003e; her new study, \u003ci\u003eThe World Made by Women: A History of Womankind from the Age of Cleopatra to the Era of Hillary Clinton\u003c\/i\u003e, is forthcoming in 2016.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 296\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.81 x 8.01 x 5.12 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 31, 2001\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51772843852064,"sku":"9780940322653","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/53f2178ac7361f0312ce62d0d0ae1210.webp?v=1780415476","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/madame-de-pompadour-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}