At Barcelona Bridal Fashion Week, Vivienne Westwood's Andreas Kronthaler showed wedding dresses full of character, one creation was inspired by François Boucher's painting of King Louis XV's ...

But Madame de Pompadour desired power only for the sake of power. She liked to be an object of flattery and adulation ; to live in luxury ; to dispense bounty and patronage ; ...

MANCY MITFORD has lived happily in the heart of Paris sitter the war. The first novel she wrote there was Love in a Cold Climate; her next, The Blessing, was a Book-of-the-Month Club selection in ...

Madame de Pompadour (1721-1764) One of the most loved and most powerful royal mistresses was Jeanne Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour—often known as just “Madame de Pompadour.” ...