When Louis XV, King of France ... the pretty young woman who would become Marquise de Pompadour, had been invited to a masked ball at Versailles. If this sounds like a chance meeting, it wasn ...

Madame de Pompadour didn't just share King Louis XV's bed, she also shared his power. As the most commanding mistress in the French court, she bettered the lives of many and became a beloved ...

From Madame de Pompadour to Jeanne du Barry, these women wielded power in pre-Revolutionary France as companion to the king. This painting of Louis XV and his last mistress Madame du Barry was ...

20 (UPI) --The restored chambers of Madame du Barry ... moved to Versailles in 1768 after the death of Madame de Pompadour, King Louis XV's chief mistress who is known as a titan in art history ...

The lover of Louis XV pauses in thought amid a resplendent setting in a painting that testifies to her status as one of the 18th century’s supreme tastemakers. J.S. Marcus ...

Politics Jeanne Antoinette Poisson is better remembered as Madame de Pompadour, the official chief mistress of Louis XV. Her position was a highly political one as well as a sexualized one–a ...