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 ...

The envoy reported that Madame de Pompadour showed no great desire to receive his visits, and that in his judgment she had never been well disposed toward the king of Prussia.

7 FATE now took a curious turn; Madame de Châtcauroux died, the second of the Mailly sisters to be removed from the King by death.

Louis XV’s mistress, Madame de Pompadour, has generally been badly served by her biographers. She was reviled in print during the Revolutionary period as an example of the corruption and ...

4 French royal mistresses who made their mark on history From Madame de Pompadour to Jeanne du Barry, these women wielded power in pre-Revolutionary France as companion to the king.

The mystique and allure of Madame de Pompadour’s partially mythic legacy has attracted the attention of generations of historians and the public. But her full legacy includes more than just ...

The title of this magnificent new book—Everyday Rococo: Madame de Pompadour and Sèvres Porcelain—on a familiar, indeed almost clichéd subject is intriguing and intentionally paradoxical ...

Madame de Pompadour, the chief mistress of Louis XV, famously loved pink clothes, and she commissioned a bright pink porcelain service from Sèvres, which developed a new color for the set called ...

Madame de Pompadour is perhaps most associated with the dramatically upswept hairstyle that bears her name today. The more historically informed might pin her as Louis XV's mistress in the mid-1700s.